Linksys already has a semi-automated wpa-psk setup that gets around user-defined weak wpa-psk keys. http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article126-page1.php downside: it requires all of the same vendors crap, which is completely useless. For the most part it looks like a pile of software shims to get it going. Michael Fraase wrote: > Why would a vendor ship a wireless router with the wireless disabled? > Secured, yes. Disabled, no. > > Seems to me, admittedly a non-coder, a relatively trivial task to make the > device boot into a web screen that prompts the administrator to define a > WPA/WPA2 key when it's first plugged in. Make it so it won't run until this > key is defined. > > -- > Michael Fraase > mfraase at farces.com > www.michaelfraase.com > > >>-----Original Message----- >>Why not ship it with wireless disabled, so at least it's not >>a gaping security hole the minute it's plugged in? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>