CF 802.11 with PEAP support?

[sanbinde]

Hi All. I am a systems engineer for a large 12000 employees company. For last 2 month out emerging technologies department was piloting Cisco Aironet 802.11b network for laptops and Ipaqs. Cisco has embedded PEAP (advanced authentication protocol for wireless) into their Aironet drivers, but there are no 802.11b CF card by cisco - hence Ipaqs with PCMCIA slots in the sleeves and laptops only.

I showed my AXIM to the my manager, told him about the price difference and benchmarks vs 3970, and he told me to find a CF card with PEAP support, and then Axim would be included in the pilot!

I am doing research right now, but to no avail.

Anybody knows about 802.11b CF cards that support PEAP? For info about PEAP see http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0923peap.html

[altden2002]

Well, there is hope. I know for fact that some OEMs do have working pilot-quality 802.1x drivers for pocketpc wifi, but it's an NDA thing. You can talk to major OEMs and ask them - with 12000 seats you are in a position to demand specail treatment.



Originally posted by sanbinde
Hi All. I am a systems engineer for a large 12000 employees company. For last 2 month out emerging technologies department was piloting Cisco Aironet 802.11b network for laptops and Ipaqs. Cisco has embedded PEAP (advanced authentication protocol for wireless) into their Aironet drivers, but there are no 802.11b CF card by cisco - hence Ipaqs with PCMCIA slots in the sleeves and laptops only.

I showed my AXIM to the my manager, told him about the price difference and benchmarks vs 3970, and he told me to find a CF card with PEAP support, and then Axim would be included in the pilot!

I am doing research right now, but to no avail.

Anybody knows about 802.11b CF cards that support PEAP? For info about PEAP see http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0923peap.html

[altden2002]

I guess it's public now:

http://napps.nwfusion.com/weblogs/cool/archives/002059.html

Use Socket cards and you'll be fine with 802.1x They are a tad pricey though.

[sanbinde]

Thanks a lot, great news!!!

I already email this article to our networking technologies department. I guess one clarification is still needed. The article doesn't mention the new software for PPC 2002, but I will take this question to Socket

[altden2002]

I'm glad to help. :)
Here's Socket's press-release http://www.socketcom.com/about/press/read.asp?ID=73 - might come in handy when you talk to Socket reps. It came out two days after you asked your question, so your prayers have been heard. :D

Next version of pocket pc will be based on CE.NET and as such will have 802.1x built-in. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/WindowsCENET/default.aspx It is unclear however when will this ship, and even then it is up to OEMs (DELL) to port this new os to their devices. But! Once it happens, life would be beautiful for corporate customers - any cheapo CF WiFi card will do (i think i saw a $50 linksys one the other day on amazon) and with Dell's pocket pc being like $250 we are looking at $300 mobile information solution.
The only thing that could undermine this shiny all-pocket-pc corporate world is projection that entry-level laptops will drop to $500 around this summer. Life is great.:)

There are more 802.1x PocketPC solutions, i'll keep you posted as they go public and NDA expires. :cool:

[altden2002]

Toshiba e740 now supports 802.1x, official. I tried it at owrk wehre we have 802.1x deployed and it works, more or less (just one soft-reset every two days is small price to pay).

http://www.pocketpcpassion.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26650