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2008-09-18 , 18:57
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Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
WPA does not, as far as I know, need hardware support in the wi-fi chipset/card -- it's a feature of the wi-fi driver. So the SL-6000 should be able to support WPA, with the right software.
...and the right hardware.

WPA is useless. You want WPA2.

wpa_supplicant has to support the hardware. It doesn't support Orinoco or the on-board WLAN which uses wlan_ng driver. Here is a 2004 review of Zaurus SL6000. The C-series have a clamshell. If you open it the normal way you get screen + keyboard. You can turn the screen around and put the backside of the screen on the keyboard, making it smaller and stylus-only. You can rotate the screen since it supports rotation (manually; not with accelerator). the C-series don't have on-board WLAN or BT so for any wireless functionality you'd need a CF card whereas it only has 1 CF slot. Not nice IMO.
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