Are Pretec going to do WPA drivers for their SDIO cards?

Every time I check their site or via google, I find a "WEP (WPA coming
soon)" message. "Soon" is a long time coming. I have problems with
using 128k WEP keys on my Pretec SDIO card to a Netgear 834 box, it
works at 64k but won't authenticate at 128k (other gear works to the
Netgear at 128k WEP key size so I think the Netgear is innocent).

Hence I'd love a new Pretec driver for WPA. Anyone heard?

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Colum Mylod <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Every time I check their site or via google, I find a "WEP (WPA coming
>soon)" message.

I've had luck with other vendors with WiFi certified product by going
to the WiFi cert folks and asking how they got certification without
WPA. One questy from the certification agency offering to pull their
cert is worth thousands of customers calling to ask for their
drivers...

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:37:10 -0500, William P.N. Smith wrote:

>Colum Mylod <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>Every time I check their site or via google, I find a "WEP (WPA coming
>>soon)" message.
>
>I've had luck with other vendors with WiFi certified product by going
>to the WiFi cert folks and asking how they got certification without
>WPA. One questy from the certification agency offering to pull their
>cert is worth thousands of customers calling to ask for their
>drivers...

I wasn't aware that WPA might be a certification requirement, it
certainly looks like a good angle of "attack" as it were. I've sent
off a message using their web form since if you google for Pretec WPA
there are *oodles* of web sites with the same "coming soon" message
dating from mid 2004. Call me impatient but mid 2004 is beyond
"shortly" or "soon". :-)

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Colum Mylod <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I wasn't aware that WPA might be a certification requirement

It has been or quite a while now, see http://wi-fi.org for more
details than you'd ever want to know. Of course, one out is that
products don't _have_ to be WiFi certified. Many vendors provide beta
drivers to the WiFi folks to get certified and then never make them
available to customers...

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:55:36 -0500, William P.N. Smith wrote:

>It has been or quite a while now, see http://wi-fi.org for more
>details than you'd ever want to know. Of course, one out is that
>products don't _have_ to be WiFi certified. ..

Very interesting site, thanks. It doesn't have any "Pretec" listed
(unless wi-fi certifies by the real chip mfu too?) which might explain
their tardiness in issuing WPA drivers.

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