fred smith wrote: > Hi! > > I'm messing about with an old Toshiba Tecra laptop. i've got wireless > working well using NetworkManager and WEP. But I'm interested in finding > out if it is possible to get WPA/TKIP or other WPA variants to work with > that driver. > Some where I might still have beta XP drivers for TKIP for this card, but I am pretty sure that they never released them. Toss the card and get something that is current. PCMCIA cards are affordable. > According to dmesg, boottime diagnostics include: > eth0: Hardware identity 0005:0004:0005:0000 > eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:000a > eth0: firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.10 > ... > eth0 Station name "HERMES I" > > I've been googling a lot and most of what I see seems to indicate > that there's no WPA support in that hardware, but that it may be > possible to do WPA anyway if the drivers have the right set of patches. > But so far I've not found anything definitive, especially not something > that goes back far enough to be in a modestly old product like Centos 5.2. > > but anyway, if anyone knows anything about this I'd appreciate some hints. > > Thanks!