Does Anyone Know If Wpa2 Will Be Available From The Start?

[gpx74532]

Thinking of buying a Pandora mainly for portable web surfing around the house. Does anyone know if WPA2+PSK will be available from the start? I generally find WEP is the only option on "similar" devices which is next to useless.

TIA

 

[rabidpoobear]

Thinking of buying a Pandora mainly for portable web surfing around the house. Does anyone know if WPA2+PSK will be available from the start? I generally find WEP is the only option on "similar" devices which is next to useless.

TIA

yeah, the networking is controlled by the operating system, not by the devices. So it's just based on the drivers available for the wifi chip they chose under Linux. And I'd like to think Craig & Co. would choose one with WPA2 support built in.

 

[atiflz]

Linux kernel supports those schemes. Even if there is no GUI for it in the beginning, all kind of wireless security options are available via an application called wpa_supplicant. Even no one does a GUI for it, I will.

 

[bzar]

Doesn't there need to be driver support as well?

In the dmesg output posted by notaz I see WEP, CCMP and TKIP, but no AES, for instance.
CODE
[ 5.308319] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 5.322509] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 5.335327] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[ 5.339660] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
[ 5.344024] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
[ 5.348449] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'


Can someone confirm the (non)existence of wep2/aes support?

 

[gpx74532]

Thanks for replies.

Its good to know it will not be just me trying to get this to work

 

[multiplex]

Doesn't there need to be driver support as well?

In the dmesg output posted by notaz I see WEP, CCMP and TKIP, but no AES, for instance.
CODE
[ 5.308319] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 5.322509] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 5.335327] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[ 5.339660] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
[ 5.344024] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
[ 5.348449] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'


Can someone confirm the (non)existence of wep2/aes support?

AFAICT CCMP and AES aren't separate protocols, but rather CCMP uses AES. My network card lists it as "AES/CCMP"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCMP

 

[bzar]

Doesn't there need to be driver support as well?

In the dmesg output posted by notaz I see WEP, CCMP and TKIP, but no AES, for instance.
CODE
[ 5.308319] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 5.322509] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 5.335327] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[ 5.339660] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
[ 5.344024] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
[ 5.348449] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'


Can someone confirm the (non)existence of wep2/aes support?

AFAICT CCMP and AES aren't separate protocols, but rather CCMP uses AES. My network card lists it as "AES/CCMP"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCMP

Very much my bad. Thanks for the quick correction though!

 

[TJSomething]

What I'd like to know is if this will be accessible in a GUI and if said GUI will support PEAP.

 

[Vorporeal]

Doesn't there need to be driver support as well?

In the dmesg output posted by notaz I see WEP, CCMP and TKIP, but no AES, for instance.
CODE
[ 5.308319] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 5.322509] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 5.335327] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[ 5.339660] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
[ 5.344024] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
[ 5.348449] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'


Can someone confirm the (non)existence of wep2/aes support?


ieee80211 is the kernel's networking stack, not the driver for your wireless chip. if it doesn't list AES, that means that there isn't support for it through the kernel. the specific driver for the wireless chip interfaces with a program called wpa_supplicant (used for connecting to encrypted/protected networks) through a general wrapper driver. as long as the driver for the wireless chip has support for the kernel's networking stack, we should have no problem getting WPA2 security working.

EDIT: In response to above, yes, there is a very basic gui for wpa_supplicant, and it should support PEAP just fine.