US Robotics told Tom's Networking that the delay in releasing WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) upgrades for its 802.11g gear has to do with the Windows XP/2000 only driver issue: Tim Higgins, as usual, gets to the bottom of a mystery: why US Robotics had lagged in WPA support. The company says that the only drivers available until recently that they could have used support only Windows 2000 and XP, and that they wanted full legacy support from Windows 98 Second Edition through current releases. Texas Instruments will provide the utilities necessary.
The WPA update will be available in June when US Robotics ships firmware upgrades to support frame bursting and other speed improvements for both their TI-based and Broadcom-based products.