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[Paul Dekkers <paul.dekkers AT surfnet.nl>]

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Hi,

On 12-11-13 08:58, Scott Armitage wrote:
> 
> On 10 Dec 2013, at 15:14, Andrew Taylor
> <a.taylor_2012 AT hotmail.co.uk>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm a student at Liverpool john moores university and I'm unable
>> to configure my computer to get onto eduroam. I have the updated
>> window 8.1 software and it just wont connect. if there anything I
>> can do??
> 
> 
> You need to contact the IT support at Liverpool John Moores.
> 
> However, from support cases I have seen at Loughborough some
> Windows 8.1 devices seem to have poor wireless drivers which don’t
> like doing 802.1X / EAP.  I have seen cases were a device
> previously worked with Windows 8, is then updated to 8.1 and will
> no longer connect to eduroam.  Yet if you put a USB wireless dongle
> into the laptop it will connect to eduroam using the USB wireless
> adapter.  One device I did some debug on wouldn’t ACK the DHCP
> offer.  I could see from the debugging on the wireless controller
> it would authenticate and was offered a lease by the DHCP server,
> but would never ACK the offer.

That's rather disturbing. I also got reports from institutions that
"Windows 8.1 just doesn't work with eduroam", so when more people
migrate to 8.1 this might become a bigger thing.

Regards,
Paul


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