From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.12]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2597507 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:25:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4C55ADF6.5040307@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:25:10 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] miniPCI wireless card compatibility, older and newer Thinkpads References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, Stan! On 08/01/10 11:32 am, Stan Sidlov thus wrote : > Is there any 5Ghz wpa2 -aes support? > The Intel Windows driver *supposedly* supports all WPA & WPA2 variants on both radios. XWLAN and the WPA supplicant *should* support WPA2 with AES on the 5GHz radio, but I have not tested this (I don't have access to an 802.11a AP which does WPA, interestingly enough). Excellent question, though, and I'd be interested to hear from anyone else with WPA experience on 5GHz. Cheers/2.0 > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal > > wrote: > > > > > Per Aron's comments, the W500 has a mini-PCI-Express slot and the > T42 has a mini-PCI, which are different architectures. Look for an > Intel 3945abg (8086:4227) or a 4965agn (8086:4229, or 8086:4230) > card to replace the 5300 in the W500. I have tested both of these > with GenMAC with good results. The difference is really whether > you need the 802.11n capability now or anticipate needing it in > the future. I *believe* the 802.11b/g & 802.11a radios in both > cards are about the same, at least in terms of performance > (someone please correct me if my recollection is lacking). Also > note that the 4965agn card supports *draft*-n, as it predates the > ratification of the 802.11n standard. Thus, it may not be fully > compatible with equipment which has been released more recently. > -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------