USB config for Windows Connect Now. Did this go anywhere?

One of the really clever features in SP2 was the ability to setup a
wireless network device, like a consumer router, by plugging a USB
flash drive into your computer, running the setup app in the control
panel, then just plugging that USB key into the router. Here's an
article plugging the idea-
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0604.mspx.

I thought that this was a great idea for a project I'm working on, but
I'll be darned if I can find any simple routers with this feature.
There's one (two?) expensive wireless servers that support this, and a
press release from D-link on MS site promising more products to support
this that aren't anywhere on the D-link site.

Is there a list someplace of routers that have this feature? They guys
at Fry's had never even heard of such a thing. And I live in Indiana,
where the guys at Fry's usually do know what they are doing, believe it
or not (if I only visited Fry's in California I wouldn't believe me
either).

Thanks in advance.

 

Well... one obvious solution is writing an utility that will take
the XML and convert it to series of SNMP commands to the AP,
over wired LAN. Fry can give it a try.

--PA

 

I've got a bunch of the DLink stuff here. See
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/bowman_05june13.mspx

also

If you have a DGL-4300, DLink just added support in the firmware last
month for WCN over the network.

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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://www.mcemvp.us/bbowman/