Not sure I understand the question, but you need a client that has EAP-TLS support. Might be built-in (as in Windows XP), or an add-on (for most other OSes).
For Windows XP and the free MS add-on for W2K (and soon other Windows platforms), you need a card with NDIS 5.1 drivers (so-called Windows XP drivers). Other implementations (for Windows, Mas OS, and various Unix systems) can have various requirements regarding the type of card, driver version, kernel version, etc. The EAP part is really not very hard (you just need to be able to receive and send Ethernet frames with a given Ethertype), the only "difficult" part can be setting some of the parameters in the card (especially the keys), and not all cards have very good (public) APIs on all systems.
This being said, I believe that even if most platforms have one or more supplicants available (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, *BSD...), I have quite some doubts about the "smaller" platforms, e.g. Pocket PC and Palms, but there is no reason this cannot be added at some point, someone just needs to do it. It might be interesting to see how a Palm with a 16 MHz processor will handle public-key cryptography, though...
Hope that helps,
Jacques.
At 14:37 14/11/2002, Bon sy wrote:
Please pardon me for a question that may be obvious. What's the assumption on the OS and wireless cards for supporting EAL-TLS authentication. In other words, any standard compatibility issues on using any OS and wireless cards as xsupplicants?Thanks! Bon
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