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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:54:44 -0400
From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] First experience with Vista and Wi-Fi

On 07/07/07 03:33 pm, Andy Willis thus wrote :
> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
<snip>
>> Once connected, I turned off beaconing in the AP. The notebooks 
>> continued to work for the rest of the time I was there. I had a 
>> workstation downstairs with an older LinkSys PCI card in it, which I 
>> upgraded (the new card was defective, and kept dropping the signal; a 
>> subsequent replacement resolved the issue). A couple days later, my 
>> client called me to tell me that he couldn't get either of the 
>> notebooks to connect. After a few minutes on the phone, I had him log 
>> into the WRT54G from his wired desktop and turn beaconing back on. 
>> This seemed to resolve the problem.
>>
>> I know we have kicked around on this list various issues with GenMAC 
>> and non-beaconing AP's. I generally do not have a problem, but I was 
>> wondering whether I missed a change in the RFC's somewhere? The 
>> workstation downstairs with the LinkSys PCI card had no trouble once 
>> I set up the profile with the (rather long) PSK. I was able to reboot 
>> several times and get right onto the network.
>>
> I don't know if an RFC changed but I have WPA2 and beaconing off and I 
> find on my T42 that I often have to force the connection with Genmac 
> (reboots often just reconnect but if I connected to any other network 
> it won't connect on its own).  If I boot into the XP sp2 partition 
> then Access Connections seems to always pick it up but I do that 
> rarely enough for it not to be a fair test.  The T60 from work with XP 
> sp2 I generally have to tell Access Connections to connect to it as it 
> won't connect on its own.
Thanks for your follow-up. At another client of mine, here in New York, 
I recently configured two T60's with Access Connections. Their AP was 
also configured with beaconing off, and I had no trouble getting 
connected from either of the two T60's. Last week, they had a temp in 
the office who needed access to the Wi-Fi with his notebook. It wasn't a 
ThinkPad (I don't recall what it was, as I never saw it), and he used 
Windows XP to manage his connection. He was unable to connect until I 
enabled beaconing. I initially thought that it was simply his lack of 
understanding as to how to configure a wireless profile in 'doze to 
connect without an SSID showing in a scan. From the AP, by checking his 
wireless MAC, I was able to determine that he as using an Atheros-based 
card, though I have no idea what vintage driver he was using.

Somehow, one would think that standards-based protocols would be, well, 
standards-based. :-\

-- 
Lewis
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