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["Hyndman, Dylan" <Dylan.Hyndman AT Cumbria.ac.uk>]

Hello,
Just to add to this, we have been unable to get 8.1 to work with the cat 
tool, however we can manually configure 8.1 for eduroam. This suggests to me 
that it *may* be something that needs looking at with regard to the cat tool.

I can share our guide if required.

Cheers
Dylan 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Dekkers 
[mailto:paul.dekkers AT surfnet.nl]
 
Sent: 11 December 2013 08:17
To: 
cat-users AT geant.net
Subject: Re: [cat-users] not working

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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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