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 2597590 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:31:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4C55BD79.3090303@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:31:21 -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 Because we don't think in Answers & Questions, but rather, Questions & Answers. See substantive thoughts, below. :-) >>> Why? Because it defies logic. >>> Why? Top-posting in mailing lists gets difficult for people to follow... >>> What's wrong with top-posting in mailing lists and newsgroups? On 08/01/10 02:12 pm, Stan Sidlov thus wrote : > I'm running only "N" services at the house now, bonded (fixed) on the > 2.4Ghz to annoy the neighbors - for two laptops, and 5Ghz service > bonded (auto) for my daughter's x200T. I wish I could find 5Ghz PCMCIA > cards so I could drop the 2.4 service altogether. > > Her's does "A" service too, I can't remember why I didn't enable "A" > along with/instead of "N", throughput? > A doesn't penetrate solid matter very well. When we were talking about 5GHz, I wasn't even thinking about N. In that case, I'd need to defer to Christian, as I really do not know (he has said that the WPA supplicant is an older port; not sure if N support is/was included or necessary at that level. FWIW, the native XP supplicant, IIRC, did not have AES support for WPA2 (don't ask), though they seem to have fixed that, post-SP2 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917021). An interesting (though probably unrelated) thread on N & WPA2 & the wpasupplicant I found during a Google search: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/344022 . Most of us configure APs for WPA & WPA2, to allow the broadest range of clients to connect. This bug appears to indicate that by narrowing the AP to WPA2 *only* the connections seemed to work (though admittedly, I only gave it a quick read). Cheers/2.0 > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal > > wrote: > > 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. > > > -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------