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WNA3100M no WPA2-Radius?
Hi,
my WNA3100M USB WLAN stick seems not to support WPA2-Radius / Enterprise, just WPA2-PSK. Is that true?
Driver is current, 1.2.0.9 on Windows 7 (yes, I know...)
Best regards, M
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FriendlyWeasel wrote:
Driver is current, 1.2.0.9 on Windows 7 (yes, I know...)
Perhaps that's the answer. This is an old (2013) USB adapter. You will find the published specifications in the official documentation.
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.
You may have done that already. I can't tell from your message.
I mention it because Netgear gave up on supplying paper manuals years ago and people sometimes miss the downloads.Thank you for your answer.
Likely it simply is not possible, regardless of the driver.
The WNA3100M is still sold, at least at the German site netgear.de.
Sad thing is, that the "technical specifications" there do not mention anything about supported/non-supported WPA(2) flavors. Neither does the "Data sheet" there, nor the "Product data sheet" from the support site - you need to have the knowledge that something important is missing there.
It is not before the Annex in the User Manual that you find info about encryption options. To summarize: Netgear expects you to download and scan the User Manual before you buy, but not the Technical Specification or data sheets they themselves provide.
FriendlyWeasel wrote:
Sad thing is, that the "technical specifications" there do not mention anything about supported/non-supported WPA(2) flavors. Neither does the "Data sheet" there, nor the "Product data sheet" from the support site - you need to have the knowledge that something important is missing there.
Specification only ever list things that a device does support. Including everything not included would lead to a very long, and to most people meaningless, list.
If it isn't mentioned then there is a high chance that it does not support it, or that it is irrelevant.
None of Netgear's USB devices refers to WPA2-Radius. (Are there other brands that do?) Plenty of routers cover the topic.
FriendlyWeasel wrote:
The WNA3100M is still sold, at least at the German site netgear.de.
Yes, and there are Windows 10 drivers for it, albeit three years old.
I find it a bit odd that someone worried about wifi security is running Windows 7. The general advice is that it is unwise to allow anything running Windows 7 anywhere near the Internet.
