Re: wpa and wi

2009-10-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Steve Shockley
 wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 12:34 AM, Rafael Ferreira Neves wrote:
>>
>> It's better you figure out what is the chipset of your wireless card
>> and then search in the manpages to discover if WPA or WPA2 is
>> supported for your card.
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I meant wi(4), and while the man page doesn't
> specifically say anything about wpa, I didn't know if it was hardware
> dependent or driver dependent.

Depends on the driver. Back in the day, wi was awesome and supported
all the fun stuff, but it still doesn't use the generic 802.11 stack
which is a requirement for WPA support.



Re: wpa and wi

2009-10-29 Thread Steve Shockley

On 10/29/2009 12:34 AM, Rafael Ferreira Neves wrote:

It's better you figure out what is the chipset of your wireless card
and then search in the manpages to discover if WPA or WPA2 is
supported for your card.


Thanks for the reply.  I meant wi(4), and while the man page doesn't 
specifically say anything about wpa, I didn't know if it was hardware 
dependent or driver dependent.




Re: wpa and wi

2009-10-28 Thread Rafael Ferreira Neves
It's better you figure out what is the chipset of your wireless card
and then search in the manpages to discover if WPA or WPA2 is
supported for your card.

This may help you: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Steve Shockley
 wrote:
>
> Can wi cards do wpa or wpa2?



wpa and wi

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Shockley

Can wi cards do wpa or wpa2?