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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hi,

> 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.

That sounds interesting!

Stefan

> 
> 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
> 
> 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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