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From: "Carl Gehr" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers Undecoded message Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] [OS2Wireless]TPad T60 Connect to Linksys BEFW11S4 - Security Settings Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:15:01 -0500 (EST) To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:12:38 +0100 (CET), Frank Vos wrote:

>Hello Chuck,
>On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:08:42 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>
>>You should be able to set it up with WPA and TKIP.  It does not appear
>>that it will ever support the WPA2 and AES encryption which all up to
>>date routers do.
>>
>>It appears that XWLAN supports on TKIP for WPA and AES for WPA2.
>Yes, it's possible to use WPA2/AES, the OS/2 wpa_supplicant is
>supporting it. I'm using WPA2 now, my Linksys router is able to use
>this encryption. But I'm not using XWLAN, I use my own batch files
>to start wireless LAN on my Thinkpad R60.

And, just my speculation, Frank, you are probably using a newer router
than the BEFW11S4.  The BEFW11S4 does not, AFAIK, support WPA2 -- even
with the updated microcode.

Carl

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