support for WPA2

[linux newbie]

My understanding is that TKIP is handled by the cisco card and hence
AES should also be handled by card?

Is my understanding correct??

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:19 AM, linux newbie <linux.newbie79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Pavel.
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 09:40 +1000, linux newbie wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On our ARM based terminal we have cisco 350 pcmcia wireless card. I
>>> downloaded the driver that supports WPA and things are working fine as
>>> expected.
>>>
>>> In the cisco website it was mentioned that cisco 350 does not support
>>> WPA2 as the radio lags AES.
>>>
>>> Is there any alternative to add support for WPA2? eg: by modifying the
>>> driver with AES support (some weired idea ;) )
>>
>> I don't think anyone will help you with that. ?The driver in the kernel
>> doesn't appear to support even TKIP, so you are likely using some driver
>> that was deemed inappropriate for the kernel. ?Combine that with the
>> fact that the hardware is obsolete.
>>
>>> If WPA2 is not possible at all, can you please recommend some other
>>> PCMCIA cards with open source driver support?
>>
>> Anything with Prism chipset should work with the hostap driver. ?See
>> drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c in the kernel sources for the
>> device table. ?I know, it's somewhat challenging to find such device on
>> the market now.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Pavel Roskin
>>
>