All, A number of Windows Vista laptops have started to arrive on our campus with 802.11n draft 1.0 NICs. Over the past week we've found that the combination of Windows Vista (mostly Ultimate), SecureW2's supplicant (any version, but primarily 3.2), draft-n cards (primarily Intel), and some types of 802.1x failures will put Vista into a state from which it can't successfully perform any 802.1x authentications.
When the machine is in the failed state, reboots do not help. The best fix is to remove Vista's saved settings for the wireless network, manually set up a new network, and tell Vista to not automatically associate. Then, once the network settings are reconfigured properly (using SecureW2 rather than the built-in supplicant) the network can be reconfigured to auto-associate without problems. When the machines are working, they don't want to fail. But something is occasionally perturbing them. A RADIUS server upgrade last week was the catalyst for one set of failures. Is anyone else seeing behavior like this? Our sample size is fairly small at the moment, so we're looking for more data before the bulk of our students return later this week. Thanks in advance. -- Jorj Bauer IT Director University of Pennsylvania O: 215/898-0575 F: 215/898-1195 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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