[ltp] TP T4xx Wireless Options

Nick Bower linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:50:52 +0100


You are absolutely correct - I was thinking WPA and wrote WEP.  Sorry.

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:32, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:36, Nick Bower wrote:
> > Lucky you ;)  It must be just the 2200 driver lacking these features
> > then (this is the one in the T42 for example).
> 
> The ipw2200 driver does support WEP. It also supports the newer IPW2915
> 802.11a/b/g card.
> 
> From http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/README.ipw2200:
> 
> Release 0.12 Current Features
> ------------ -----   -----       ----       ---       --         -     
> - BSS mode (Infrastructure, Managed)
> - IBSS mode (Ad-Hoc)
> - WEP (OPEN and SHARED KEY mode)
> - 802.1x EAP via xsupplicant
> - Wireless Extension support 
> - long/short preamble support
> - Full B and G rate support (2200 and 2915)
> - Full A rate support (2915 only)
> - Transmit power control
> - S state support (ACPI suspend/resume)
> 
> The ipw2100 driver supports WPA and RFMON - which is also planned for
> the ipw2200 once the current features stabilize.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Brix