firmware upgradable? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r10178835 en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:37:57 EDT Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:37:57 EDT Re: firmware upgradable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10182955 flw : Well after the begining of June, well see if any mfg firmware updates come out b/g producs and which ones do/don't.
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"Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer" »www.byronil.org ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10182955 Fri, 07 May 2004 21:08:25 EDT Re: firmware upgradable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10179186 DrTCP :
said by flw See Profile:
My understanding has always been than existing b/g hardware would not be firmware upgradable to 802.11i/WPA2 due to various cpu and other hardware alterations within the circuits? As mentioned in the Article itself.

Dan
I believe soft radio based 802.11b/g cards should be able to support the new standard. Atheros and Broadcom 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g cards come to mind.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10179186 Fri, 07 May 2004 13:31:09 EDT Re: firmware upgradable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10179131 DrTCP :
said by Supafly See Profile:
If the card or access point has a dedicated AES chip (I believe Zyxel and some Netgear's has this) all it would take is a software/firmware upgrade to use the cchip for AES processing.
WPA support should be in the Radio unless the vendor is implementing host mode AP functions (processing and encrypt/decrypt raw frames in CPU environment). Most AP implement AP functions in the card firmware itself (firmware AP). They download the AP firmware to the card and card (wireless module) does the enryption and decryption. For this reason if the card firmware could be upgraded to handle AES than WPA2 upgrade could be done.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10179131 Fri, 07 May 2004 13:25:10 EDT Re: firmware upgradable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10179106 Supafly : If the card or access point has a dedicated AES chip (I believe Zyxel and some Netgear's has this) all it would take is a software/firmware upgrade to use the cchip for AES processing.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10179106 Fri, 07 May 2004 13:21:40 EDT firmware upgradable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10178835 flw : My understanding has always been than existing b/g hardware would not be firmware upgradable to 802.11i/WPA2 due to various cpu and other hardware alterations within the circuits? As mentioned in the Article itself.

Dan
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