Hear, hear! Along these lines, it should not be so freaking difficult to make WPA work with an old Toshiba laptop. If money were no object, I'd just buy the proprietary drivers, release the source, and let the community at it. I suspect it's all just planned obsolescence anyway, as there doesn't seem to be a technical/hardware limitation to some of these endeavours to make old hardware work with modern security. Rather, it's because this old hardware can't run with newer versions of Windows that hardware manufacturers just throw up their hands and refuse to update the drivers for older stuff. (Ahem... ending this comment before I start in on another Windows rant.)
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