Does my laptop support WPA2? How to check?

[Brian]

On Mon 19 Jan 2009 at 18:39:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> How can I check if my laptop supports the WPA2 wireless protocol in
> Ubuntu? Thanks.

On this machine:

brian at laptop:~$ sudo iwlist auth
lo        no authentication information.

eth2      unknown authentication information.

eth0      no authentication information.

wifi0     no authentication information.

ath0      Authentication capabilities :
                WPA
                WPA2
                CIPHER-TKIP
                CIPHER-CCMP
          Current WPA version :
                disabled
          Current Key management :
                802.1x
                PSK
          Current Pairwise cipher :
                WEP-104
          Current Pairwise cipher :
                TKIP
          Current TKIP countermeasures : no
          Current Drop unencrypted : no
          Current Roaming control : no
          Current Privacy invoked : no

eth2 is a wireless interface with an RT2500 chipset. No luck there. ath0
has an Atheros AR2413 chip.