Re: 802.11 adapter for CE 5.0, leap compatible

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Well, it looks like that's not going to happen, unless you're willing to
license LEAP from Cisco. Maybe you can find an EAP DLL for EAP-FAST from
Cisco and use that. I don't know if you usually have to separately enable
that on the Cisco APs or not, but it might be on by default...

Paul T.

"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <ptobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com>
wrote in message news:OSvhjB5GGHA.2696@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> But you are going to them and selling them your product, yes? I mean you
> aren't selling a Hospital Widget Size Large at Best Buy?! Your sales
> staff have a job to do to educate the customer and their success will be
> your success, in the long term.
>
> You could write an EAP extension DLL yourself to handle LEAP, maybe.
> You'll have to get the docs on LEAP from Cisco and the docs on writing the
> DLL from Microsoft. I've never looked at it, but there may be enough
> documentation to do it. It's pretty clear from the rest of the thread
> that there isn't one already out there so, since this is a critical
> capability to your device, you're going to have to bite the bullet and
> write it or pay someone to do it.
>
> Paul T.
>
> "Lorraine" <lorrainek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1137519651.492840.279350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Yes, Chris was very helpful with his answer. However, I have already
>> spoken to Linksys representatives and they do not support LEAP.
>>
>> Believe it or not, there are hospitals in the United States that are
>> not even barcode enabled. But let's not take it to that "extreme".
>> Back when the hospital is still using paper, they did not have an IT
>> department. Now they have an IT department with respective rules and
>> regulations.
>>
>> I am not sure if you understand that the hospitals are not coming to us
>> and asking for a product. If it was such, we would of course recommend
>> the best solution possible. What we are trying to do is to build a
>> "toaster" device so the hospitals can plug it in anyway they like.
>> My toaster doesn't force me to eat bread instead of pop tarts because
>> pop tarts are sugary and unhealthy for me. If it did, why would I buy
>> that toaster? I would buy another one that allows me to do what I
>> want.
>>
>> Supporting LEAP does not mean we feel LEAP is better than other network
>> authentication protocols. We are simply studying the needs of our
>> targeted customers and building to that.
>>
>
>


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