[Tfug] USB WiFi

[Jim March]

Huh.  Damn.  Didn't know that.  Heh.  Ooops.

Jim

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In case anybody isn't aware: these cannot support WPA encryption
>> because the "B" series WiFi standard didn't support WPA.  No driver
>> update in the world will fix that.  Plus, some routers have "B" class
>> support turned off.  So they're for limited situations only.
>
> The original 802.11b Airport card in an iMac begs to differ - it
> supports WPA just fine, with Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
>
> WPA support is much more card and OS dependent, not standard
> dependent.   The card has to understand the encryption, and the OS has
> to have a "supplicant" that handles key exchange, IIRC.
>
> - Zack
>
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