Howard Glynn wrote: > I was reading a bit more on this and found this post ( > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2008-February/009770.html > ) which suggests that you change " ... your AP to WPA2/TKIP only." > > I've tried lots of combinations of AP settings and both nwam and manual wifi > config and nothing seems to work sadly. > > My Netgear DG834PN AP help screens say that in both WPA and WPA2 modes they > use "...either TKIP or AES encryption." There is no way to restrict this. > > Does this imply then I won't be able to get a connection until I either (a) > get a new router that supports being more configurable or (b) wait for > opensolaris to support TKIP and AES simultaneously on iwi0 + WPA driver? > > I'm not going to buy a new router so it looks like I might be stuck. > Is there a timeline for this support in iwi0 Cecilia? > > Thanks, Howard > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > My router does WPA/WPA2 with TKIP/AES and supports draft N while maintaining B/G support, whereas adapters must support WPA through native means or through supplicant. I have two devices, pcwl (Wavelan IEEE 802.11b, Lucent ORiNOCO Gold PCMCIA) and pcan (Cisco 350 Mini-PCI) which will not work at all with WPA (Supplicant can be flaky, though with effort it seems to work, only with a supplicant and only with tkip) the root cause being the frequency and security being broadcasted, the compatibility doesn't seem to reach back to support WPA to the full extent with named devices. When ssid broadcasting is turned off, the client adapters (Especially Netgear and Linksys USB whereas not Atheros or Intel-based will result in authentication failure due to certain bugs in the cards, though their routers have also been known to cause issues, even with Atheros or Intel wireless cards) With Atheros 5211 (PCI), Atheros 5416 (Mini-PCI), D-Link DWL-810G (Bridge) and Netgear MA311 (USB) running in G-mode using WPA2 authentication, all run perfect on this network, and most clients are using AES not TKIP.
Apple Airport Extreme Base Station with Draft-N (Bought ~1yr ago) (Around $189 USD) Most routers I've owned (D-Link DI624, Linksys WRT54G) have issues with WPA2/AES and at least 80% of the wireless cards there are in circulation, so the cost was definitely worth it. I've also had some quality issues with regards to heat on the above two. The range is around 5x more than ever accomplished with DI-624 or home-grown solution even for G clients (Using Atheros 5211 PCI and Linux with RADIUS was the homegrown, which is better than a standard Netgear/Linksys router in itself, but not comparable now) The GUI unfortunately is client-based, it does not use a web browser, but it's highly configurable, you can chain them together, use external RADIUS authentication servers, force G or N-only modes, or run in compatibility, and there's remote syslog support as well as CIFS NAS. (Though performance is clearly not good due to ARM) One slight issue some may find, it's 100mbit not Gbit, but that's why I have a Gbit Netgear switch, which works great, since I only have two of 6 systems with Gbit, both next to each other on the same desk usually. James
