The mailing list for users of the eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool (CAT)

[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

This would be a request to everyone.
If you think that your manual settings can do better then CAT then 
please help by followinf this testing procedure:

With your working (manually set) connection, please do

netsh wlan export profile eduroam

This will create a file containing the profile.
Please save this file in another location for future reference.

Then just to be sure that no magic is involved do:

netsh wlan delete profile eduroam
netsh wlan add profile filename="your exported file.xml"

Check if your connection still works.  If it does, then run the CAT 
installer.
It will delete the existing eduroam profile and install it's own.
Please recover the imported eduroam profile doing again (but first save 
the file you have exported previously)
netsh wlan export profile eduroam

Please mail me both of these files for comparison.

This is the only way I can tell if the CAT profile is in any way deficient.

Tomasz



W dniu 2013-12-11 14:07, Hyndman, Dylan pisze:
> Hi,
>
>   > I have compared what you have in your guide with the settings tat CAT 
> made.
> > There is one difference. CAT sets anonymous identity (as you must have 
> > specified in the CAT profile) and your instructions do not.
> This is true, we have specified anonymous in the cat profile.
>
> > In principle it could be that your server just drop user anonymous - is there 
> > a chance that this could be true?
> > Tomasz
> We manually configure our Android devices and they have the anonymous user, 
> which works fine.
> Unfortunately I cannot test any further at present with windows 8.1 as the device which 
> I "borrowed" has been returned to its user.
>
> > so one would guess that he knew what he was doing
> Don't be so sure :-)
>
> > you should have the 'connect even if the network is not broadcasting' option 
> > set.
> Noted.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dylan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasz Wolniewicz 
> [mailto:twoln AT umk.pl]
> Sent: 11 December 2013 12:53
> To: Hyndman, Dylan; 
> 'cat-users AT geant.net'
> Subject: Re: [cat-users] not working
>
> Thanks,
>     I have compared what you have in your guide with the settings tat CAT 
> made.
> There is one difference. CAT sets anonymous identity (as you must have 
> specified in the CAT profile) and your instructions do not.
>
> In principle it could be that your server just drop user anonymous - is there 
> a chance that this could be true?
> Tomasz
>
>
> W dniu 2013-12-11 13:35, Hyndman, Dylan pisze:
> > Hi,
> > " Can you be more specific?"
> > Hopefully the guide will be enough.
> >
> > Regards
> > Dylan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tomasz Wolniewicz 
> > [mailto:twoln AT umk.pl]
> > Sent: 11 December 2013 12:31
> > To: Hyndman, Dylan; 
> > 'cat-users AT geant.net'
> > Subject: Re: [cat-users] not working
> >
> > Can you be more specific?
> > Usually the way that you can get things to work is by turning off all 
> > security, i.e. server certificate validation.
> > CAT really does not do anything more ore less then you can do by clicking 
> > various options in the interlace.
> >
> > Yes, please share the installation guide.
> > Tomasz
> >
> >
> > W dniu 2013-12-11 13:12, Hyndman, Dylan pisze:
> > > 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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