IBM high rate wireless and WPA ??

[thibouille27]

Possible to use WPA with this adapter?
I think it is possible using XP SP2 wizard but not sure.

Any other possibility?

[kingofthehill3]

I had some problems using WPA on the IBM high rate wireless II card, which also has a Prism 2.5 chipset. The drivers installed by windows update did work with WEP encryption, but not with WPA. The drivers on the IBM site did the job. As far as I know, you need to use Win XP with SP2 installed.

I also had problems using WPA in the Linux environment. The main Problem seems to be that most Prism 2.5 cards need an new firmware to support WPA. I think the Windows XP drivers just load a firmware delivered with the driver package. If you plan to use the card with Linux, just tell me and I'll try to write a little guide to firmware upgrading.

greets,
marcel

[jdhurst]

The best I could do with a High Rate Wireless II on a T30 was WEP. It would never do WPA. ... JD Hurst

[zyphria]

What about this?

Apparently it is based off of Intersil's Prism 2.5 chipset, and someone posted a link to using a set of generic drivers from another manufacturer.

[chubes]

I also had problems using WPA in the Linux environment. The main Problem seems to be that most Prism 2.5 cards need an new firmware to support WPA. I think the Windows XP drivers just load a firmware delivered with the driver package. If you plan to use the card with Linux, just tell me and I'll try to write a little guide to firmware upgrading.

I'm interested. I have a T30 with an Orinoco/Intersil 802.11b wireless card. I would love to get WPA going sometime this summer between my T30 and AP in Linux.