Leap on an older gateway laptop

[etrin]

Yep my company is still using leap to connect on the wireless network.

The gateway laptop I have has a broadcom nic built in and I need to find a program
that will allow it to connect to leap..I was told that the was an open source for linux that
allowed this and that it was being ported to winders xp.
Has anyone ever seen this, I can't find out anything about it.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated

 

[jlazzaro]

is there a reason your company still runs LEAP? even Cisco (the ones who developed this protocol) recommends at least moving to PEAP.

many of cracks have been develolped to break LEAP in a few minutes.

LEAP leverages a single sign-on against a RADIUS servers, the usernames and passwords cracked are usually the same credentials used for Domain Authentication. not only does the cracker gain access to your network, but they also gains possession of most your usernames and passwords!!

what type of APs are you running? what do other people in your company use to connect to wireless? does your broadcom nic come with any supporting software? never heard of the opensource client you mentioned, but the Cisco ACU supplicant and Juniper Odyseey Client should handle LEAP no prob.

 

[Goosemaster]

For Linux, xsupplicant or wpa_supplicant should be able to do it for you http://open1x.sourceforge.net/

I find the manuals for wpa_supplicant easier on the eyes😉

 

[nweaver]

LEAP is provided by the broadcom utility. Download the latest drivers and utility.

 

[etrin]

Will give it a shot.
this old laptop has the broadcom 6002494 802.11b/g Wireless LAN built in.
On the web site for broadcom the last driver was dated 2004...hope it has leap support.

(yep my company gets something running and thats it till it breaks) never update or worry about it till its tooo late.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: etrin
Will give it a shot.
this old laptop has the broadcom 6002494 802.11b/g Wireless LAN built in.
On the web site for broadcom the last driver was dated 2004...hope it has leap support.

(yep my company gets something running and thats it till it breaks) never update or worry about it till its tooo late.

Well when there are 10,000+ wireless devices per site usiing LEAP one is just a little reluctant to change. Espeically when some of them only support WEP.
😉