Windows 7 RC & Wireless
Posted by: Ariffin Kusetiawan bin Mukandar in Aironet, Aruba, Cisco, PEAP, Windows 7, Wireless, tags: Aruba, cisco aironet, iium, PEAP, peap-gtc, RC, Windows 7, WirelessWhen I was testing the beta version of Windows 7, I had problem setting up the wireless network. Albeit detecting the card, which is USB, I had problem making it work In IIUM.
IIUM uses Aruba Networks for its wireless infrastructure. Users are required to register their MAC address to use the wireless service. Furthermore, Aruba uses PEAP-GTC ( Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Generic Token Card) for its authentication. Altough PEAP is supported in WIndows 7, it only support windows PEAP implementation
I tried installing the PEAP-GTC Supplicant for Vista. In WIndows 7 Beta, I think its install ok; but when I tried to select the methods it produces an error. Unfortunately I forgot what the error was. At any rate I was unable to connect. I tried other plugins from other vendors but still the same error occured.
With Windows 7 RC, I also tried installing the PEAP-GTC supplicant from Aruba. Installation was fine, but somehow I couldn’t select the eap-token needed by Aruba. After several tries I give up, for a while, since I had to finish up some proposals.
Then I tried the Cisco Aironet Client program. It support PEAP, LEAP and EAP. The program installed without a hitch. Once installed, it Allows me to select Cisco PEAP for authentication in the wireless setting. After selecting the required entry, I tried to connect to IIUM network. To my surprise it works. Alhamdullillah, altough just a small victory, but it is a real satisfaction for me.
I let it run for a day, to check connection stability, which many Vista users complained. They said that the connection sometime died and they had to re-register/login to get connected. Again, to my surprise the connection remain strong even when I test the network for various chores such as download large file, internet access and such.
My only concern is that this might only work my a particular network card. So I am going to test this setup on a wireless enabled laptop next week. Hopefully I’ll be able to connect, too.
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May 25th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Sebab wifi problem la aku n hamzah tak jadik nak guna Windows7. So software CISCO tu bleh donlod from internet? Or ada link ? bagi la nak test kat RC1 plak…
May 25th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
yg de ni utk 64-bit shj…Tgh donlod 32 bit..this week nk test nnt masukkan online
May 25th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
ok roger … once dah ada let me know. Aku dah siap install. Driver semua OK. Cuma display tak jumpa(Radeon 9100). Tp takder hal. Nanti nak test Aruba plak … tq bro !
May 31st, 2009 at 9:15 am
You wrote… Furthermore, Aruba uses PEAP-GTC ( Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Generic Token Card) for its authentication.
Actually, for security reason… IIUM wireless policy enforce to implement 802.1x authentication method and WPA encryption… it is not simply PEAP-GTC. Authentication not done by the wireless controller but using RADIUS in between for exchange username and password from LDAP server. Since our stored password databese is based on Oracle platform (Unix family) which are using MD5 function, it creates complexity to exchange password with Microsoft based user. For MacBook and Linux user, they does not require PEAP-GTC suplicant.
To correct back your posting, Aruba not uses only PEAP-GTC but, we enable its PEAP-GTC features to support Windows users. The supplicant software was in-house develop by the awarded contractor. Supplicant PEAP-GTC for WIn XP users seems like really stable but PEAP-GTC for Vista does not work similar to XP performance.
Previously I suspected Vista has diffrent WPA option compared to world wide WPA standard. Based on finding, it is due to the incompatible supplicant. It might works using any open standard PEAP-GTC supplicant or we can create our on supplicant. Keep up all the good works
June 19th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
This piece of crap wireless throws this stupid error…can someone fix it…pretty please…signed Billy Goat Gates
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
where can i get the Cisco Aironet Client program??
plizz..share with me….thanx…
w’salam
June 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I’ve just installed Win 7 last night and use SecureW2 to connect to IIUM wireless. I have written the instruction on getting it to work with the wireless network on my blog. What I did is basically try and error, but you could give a try maybe it will work with yours.
http://aptgetmoo.blogspot.com