I just installed Vista RC1 on my Acer laptop. It didn't have a driver for my
wireless card, an Improcomm 2220, so I had to use the XP driver which I read
works fine (Improcomm has been out of business for a while now and it's
internal wireless).

I've been using a Linksys WRT54G wireless point with WPA on XP and it worked
fine. However, I can't get it to work under Vista. If I disable all security
(broadcast SSID and no encryption), it works, but add even the lightest
security and it won't connect. The "connect to a network" wizard works fine -
it even detects if I got the SSID and key right, but when it comes time to
actually connect, it fails and offers to "repair" the connection (does
nothing).

I would chalk this up to a driver problem, but the fact that it works until
Vista gets involved with security makes me wonder if it's a Windows issue.

Any thoughts/advice? Thanks in advance.

On 2006-09-24 04:41:01 +0100, Jaider said:

I just installed Vista RC1 on my Acer laptop. It didn't have a driver
for my wireless card, an Improcomm 2220, so I had to use the XP driver
which I read works fine (Improcomm has been out of business for a while
now and it's internal wireless).

I've been using a Linksys WRT54G wireless point with WPA on XP and it
worked fine. However, I can't get it to work under Vista. If I disable
all security (broadcast SSID and no encryption), it works, but add even
the lightest security and it won't connect. The "connect to a network"
wizard works fine - it even detects if I got the SSID and key right,
but when it comes time to actually connect, it fails and offers to
"repair" the connection (does nothing).

I would chalk this up to a driver problem, but the fact that it works
until Vista gets involved with security makes me wonder if it's a
Windows issue.

Any thoughts/advice? Thanks in advance.

Using an Apple macbook with Vista installed on it, works with my WRT54G
configured for WPA and MAC address lockdown just fine.

Drivers for the wireless chipset your computer is using perhaps?

--
Robert Moir
Microsoft MVP for Security

www.robertmoir.com

I would agree, except that it works without any security. I don't know much
about drivers, but it seems to me that if the driver was bad it would never
connect in the first place.

"Robert Moir" wrote:

On 2006-09-24 04:41:01 +0100, Jaider said:

I just installed Vista RC1 on my Acer laptop. It didn't have a driver
for my wireless card, an Improcomm 2220, so I had to use the XP driver
which I read works fine (Improcomm has been out of business for a while
now and it's internal wireless).

I've been using a Linksys WRT54G wireless point with WPA on XP and it
worked fine. However, I can't get it to work under Vista. If I disable
all security (broadcast SSID and no encryption), it works, but add even
the lightest security and it won't connect. The "connect to a network"
wizard works fine - it even detects if I got the SSID and key right,
but when it comes time to actually connect, it fails and offers to
"repair" the connection (does nothing).

I would chalk this up to a driver problem, but the fact that it works
until Vista gets involved with security makes me wonder if it's a
Windows issue.

Any thoughts/advice? Thanks in advance.

Using an Apple macbook with Vista installed on it, works with my WRT54G
configured for WPA and MAC address lockdown just fine.

Drivers for the wireless chipset your computer is using perhaps?

--
Robert Moir
Microsoft MVP for Security

www.robertmoir.com

Mine too.
It's definitely Vista.

I have been running (foolishy) with no encryption on the router (Draytek
2600g) other than MAC access since Beta2.

I thought Microsoft might have sorted it out in RC1.

WPA/PSK works fine on XP with all (three) of my machines, it's just Vista
the wifi security is broken on.

I wonder if they will bother offering a fix for us CPP crowd, as opposed to
a new build that some of us can't get ?

Peter


"Jaider" wrote in message
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I would agree, except that it works without any security. I don't know much
about drivers, but it seems to me that if the driver was bad it would
never
connect in the first place.

"Robert Moir" wrote:

On 2006-09-24 04:41:01 +0100, Jaider
said:

I just installed Vista RC1 on my Acer laptop. It didn't have a driver
for my wireless card, an Improcomm 2220, so I had to use the XP driver
which I read works fine (Improcomm has been out of business for a while
now and it's internal wireless).

I've been using a Linksys WRT54G wireless point with WPA on XP and it
worked fine. However, I can't get it to work under Vista. If I disable
all security (broadcast SSID and no encryption), it works, but add even
the lightest security and it won't connect. The "connect to a network"
wizard works fine - it even detects if I got the SSID and key right,
but when it comes time to actually connect, it fails and offers to
"repair" the connection (does nothing).

I would chalk this up to a driver problem, but the fact that it works
until Vista gets involved with security makes me wonder if it's a
Windows issue.

Any thoughts/advice? Thanks in advance.

Using an Apple macbook with Vista installed on it, works with my WRT54G
configured for WPA and MAC address lockdown just fine.

Drivers for the wireless chipset your computer is using perhaps?

--
Robert Moir
Microsoft MVP for Security

www.robertmoir.com

Jaider wrote:
I would agree, except that it works without any security. I don't
know much about drivers, but it seems to me that if the driver was
bad it would never connect in the first place.

I've seen Microsoft offer drivers for their own network cards in the past
which only supported a limited level of security, which is why I wondered
about that.

My wireless connection is not functional in Vista RC1. It uses a Windows
2003 IAS and WPA-Enterprise and was working fine in XP SP2. The Event logs
on the DC/IAS machine shows successful user and machine authetication via
certificates, but the RC1 does not want to accept it. It continutes to show
"Attempting to Autheticate." Use of tcpdump shows successful RADIUS
authentication, so I am at a loss as to why authentication does not
complete.

System worked fine with XP SP2, and have existing XP SP2 boxes in the domain
with wireless connection that
authenticate fine. the Windows 2003 R2 DC/IAS shows MANY IAS Event ID's in
system event log, which denote access granted. No errors in the Windows
Vista Event logs either.


--
Edward Ray
CCIE Security, CISSP, GCIA Gold, GCIH Gold, MCSE+Security, PE

"Jaider" wrote in message
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I just installed Vista RC1 on my Acer laptop. It didn't have a driver for
my
wireless card, an Improcomm 2220, so I had to use the XP driver which I
read
works fine (Improcomm has been out of business for a while now and it's
internal wireless).

I've been using a Linksys WRT54G wireless point with WPA on XP and it
worked
fine. However, I can't get it to work under Vista. If I disable all
security
(broadcast SSID and no encryption), it works, but add even the lightest
security and it won't connect. The "connect to a network" wizard works
fine -
it even detects if I got the SSID and key right, but when it comes time to
actually connect, it fails and offers to "repair" the connection (does
nothing).

I would chalk this up to a driver problem, but the fact that it works
until
Vista gets involved with security makes me wonder if it's a Windows issue.

Any thoughts/advice? Thanks in advance.

My Broadcom wireless works fine with Vista but only if the Windows Firewall
is turned off. For some reason it keeps turning itself back on though.

I also have the same issue. Wireless only with no security. Here's another
odd thing: I have a B protocol router and vista is seeing it as a g router???

"Jaider" wrote:

I just installed Vista RC1 on my Acer laptop. It didn't have a driver for my
wireless card, an Improcomm 2220, so I had to use the XP driver which I read
works fine (Improcomm has been out of business for a while now and it's
internal wireless).

I've been using a Linksys WRT54G wireless point with WPA on XP and it worked
fine. However, I can't get it to work under Vista. If I disable all security
(broadcast SSID and no encryption), it works, but add even the lightest
security and it won't connect. The "connect to a network" wizard works fine -
it even detects if I got the SSID and key right, but when it comes time to
actually connect, it fails and offers to "repair" the connection (does
nothing).

I would chalk this up to a driver problem, but the fact that it works until
Vista gets involved with security makes me wonder if it's a Windows issue.

Any thoughts/advice? Thanks in advance.