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Offline schlauf

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Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
« Reply #15 on: December 25, 2012, 02:44:34 PM »
Thanks everyone. I fell back on some ancient PRISMII-PCMCIA-Card (802.11b only) and secured the link with mandatory OpenVPN ad-hoc networking :)

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Offline tinypoodle

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Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
« Reply #16 on: December 26, 2012, 10:12:51 AM »
It may be possible to use WPA with such cards with the hostap driver and wpa_supplicant.
Might require flashing firmware.
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