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    m15x wireless problems

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Fr33m4n, Feb 6, 2009.

  1. Fr33m4n

    Fr33m4n Notebook Consultant

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    I recently reinstalled vista and moved to a 64-bit OS. At home I am perfectly able to connect to my home network that is secured using WPA-Personal. However, when I brought the laptop to work and was trying to pair it up with the WPA-Enterprise secured network that we have here I get an error message while configuring the network settings. It happens when I try to hit "Next" in the dialog to set up a wireless network. The message simply reads "An unexpected error has occurred".

    This happens for both WPA-Enterprise and WPA2-Enterprise.

    This is probably my own fault for tweaking some setting I shouldn't have touched. So what I'd really like to know is what the differences in dependencies are, when comparing WAP-Personal to WPA-Enterprise.
     
  2. The Smily

    The Smily Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had issues in vista with wpa. I read somewhere that vista has a problem with wpa after that i changed the router to wpa-2 and now it works again with 54mbit while xp on my dell gets around 128. If you work in a large companie i doubt you can change it :(
     
  3. Fr33m4n

    Fr33m4n Notebook Consultant

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    I have no problems with WPA-Personal or WPA2-Personal. It's when I'm trying to connect to the enterprise variant with personal username/password etc. that problems occur.
     
  4. Mystik

    Mystik Notebook Deity

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    might also be the version of Vista you have... does Home Premium have support for WPA-Enterprise?

    I believe that you also need some level of 802.11i or x to interface on that level properly... no idea though. look it up. google and wikipedia are your friends.
     
  5. Fr33m4n

    Fr33m4n Notebook Consultant

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    I'm on vista ultimate, and yes, it does have support for it. Everything worked fine when I was on a 32bit OS, but unfortunately I must have tweaked something I shouldn't at some point in order to break the capability. It's probably some part of the corporate network structure for logging into a domain that is missing, and the funny thing is that I don't even need domain support.

    Edit: Ok, here's a funny thing. Actually googling this issue will put my forum post on top of the google search search results. Guess not many people are experiencing this issue then.