Have you captured the beacon frames on another machine to see exactly what is being broadcast?
Scott Armitage,
IT Services Specialist,
Computing Services (Networks Team),
Loughborough University
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wireless Issues in the JANET community [mailto:WIRELESS-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Caines, Max
> Sent: 29 November 2007 16:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: WPA and Vista
>
> Yes, they are new PCs with Vista. The PCs know all about WPA - the
> connections are set up to use it. The problem is that they think the
> SSID in
> question doesn't support it. I suspect this is to do with the contents
> of
> the beacons sent by the access points, and that Vista is mis-
> interpreting
> them as requiring WEP rather than WPA. XP systems don't do this. I
> don't
> know what they would think of a SoHo type access point, because I
> haven't
> got one!
>
> Max
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wireless Issues in the JANET community
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Buxey
> > Sent: 29 November 2007 15:58
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: WPA and Vista
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > WPA1 + WPA2. The RADIUS server is IAS
> >
> > the other issue could be that they have hardware that is not
> > capable of WPA...... are these modern devices and can they see
> > WPA fed from eg a small SoHo wifi box that provides WPA-personal?
> >
> > alan
> >
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