Thanks Chris,

I am running the latest (Lion). To connect to a WiFi access point using
WPA2 works great, no problem with that part. But to create an AP from the
Mac (sharing the internet) offers only WEP.

Tamas


On 4 July 2012 08:38, William Wilson <CRIS@clemson.edu> wrote:

> WPA2 is supported back to OS X.4 (maybe X.3)
>
> Which version of Mac OS X are you running?   It seems like each version
> does networking a little bit differently.
>
> Also, have you run the Apple Software update repeatedly to make sure the
> OS is up to date?
>
> _________________________________________________________________________=
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> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Tamas Rudnai [tamas.rudnai@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 5:22 PMIt
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [OT] MacOS X network share vs. WPA2
>
> Hi People,
>
> I have spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how to enable o=
r
> hack MacOS X to offer me a WPA2 on the shared internet connection over
> WiFi.
>
> Long story short, MacOS only offers WEP 40 or 128 bit or non-security, an=
d
> Windows 7 does not like WEP. I have read so many -- sometimes funny --
> forum conversations about the subject when the OP asks how to enable WEP =
on
> Windows, and people just keep answering "Hey, did you know that WEP is
> insecure?". Then of course the OP replied "I did not ask whenever it was
> secure or not, but how to enable it".
>
> Anyway, the other giant, Apple does not care if that is insecure and that
> is not really supported anymore, their answer is to BUY an Apple WiFi so
> that you can have the WPA2 on it... Well... This is even uglier answer wh=
en
> it turns out older versions of the OS X was actually supporting this, but
> got removed for ... almost said for unknown reasons, but maybe we know
> why...
>
> Anyway, I would really appreciate if anyone knows how to hack on MacOS X =
to
> enable this feature? Maybe there is a config file down there in the
> underlaying system?
>
> Thanks,
> Tamas
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