Hello!
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:33 +0000,
f.duncan.m.haldane-fOdFMYwuEsI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Some more info I found to help document a WPA roadmap:
>
> The open source part of the Agere driver distributed as
> wl_lkm_718_release.tar.gz
> includes WPA-PSK support (Hermes-I firmware 9.48) This is the last
> open source release by Agere for Hermes-I. It seems WPA-PSK
> for Hermes-I arrived with the previous firmware 9.42.
That means that WPA support for Agere firmware is contingent on
implementation of the firmware download support. You may want to look
for HermesAP, which had this capability. But the code in HermesAP is
ugly. I wouldn't take it as is.
> (does this correspond to "firmver >= 0x90002a" (FIRMWARE_TYPE_AGERE) ?)
Yes, I think so.
> (The Apple airport in my IGHz Ti powerbook has Hermes-I firmware 9.52 with
> the full
> WPA2 "personal" and "enterprise" implemented)
I'm not sure there is a connection between firmware versions and support
for WPA2 and Radius. I actually think that the firmware requirements
are the same, at least on the station side.
> Looks like the Agere "open-source" (with accompanying binary HCF code) driver
> can be useful
> for seeing how to add WPA-PSK support to orinoco. It is licensed with the
> (revised)
> BSD-Style license (no advertising clause), so maybe its even OK to copy stuff
> from it if
> that helps (?).
I don't think there is much stuff to copy.
> Too bad there is nothing later with open source WPA2..., but WPA-PSK would be
> a good start.
Yes. Let's fix problems when we get them. If WPA works and WPA2
doesn't, then we'll have something to think about. The same applies to
Radius.
> Is this comment I found elsewhere also correct?
> >Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:29 pm
> >Until the Airport (orinoco) driver is rewritten to support the ieee80211
> >stack, there won't be >WPA support.
I suggest using some logic here.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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