Re: netword's wireless security settings - how to determine

[MERIGHI Marcus]

ted.unan...@gmail.com (Ted Unangst), 2011.02.18 (Fri) 01:27 (CET):
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:46:05AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >> Perhaps we think that the AP supports wpa2 but it is actually broken
> >> and only wpa1 works.
> >
> > We shouldn't as far as wpaprotos defaults to "wpa1,wpa2", so wpa2 shouldn't 
> > be
> > tested if wpa1 succeeds.
> 
> The man page says the opposite.  wpa2 is preferred if both are allowed.
> 
A couple of times when access points claimed to do both wpa1 and wpa2 I
had no luck with them using wpa2 - but wpa1 worked like a charm.