Wireless authentication problem!

[Matt]

I have a linksys BEFW11S4 Router and WPC11ver3 wireless
card. It will work normally when 802.1 authentication is
turned off, but when I turn it on the connection (link)
will disconnect in exactly 3 min., a message appears
telling me one or more wireless connections are available,
and I have to press the connect ket to get it to link back
up. Linksys support doesn't know the solution.

[yellowpike]

Hey Matt
It sounds like a "Power Mode" setting.
Right click the wireless connection in Network Connections and choose
Properties. Click the Configure button and select the Advanced tab.
Scroll down the Property list to Power Mode and see if the Value is set to
Continuous Access Mode. I would think that is the setting you would want
here.

Did you install a "configuration utility" with the wireless card ?
Sometimes there are issues between these and XPs Wireless Zero
Configuration.

I'm sure as hell no expert so let me know let me know how you make out.
By the way there is a dedicated wireless NG on this server if you want
another resource.
microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless

regards
yellowpike


"Matt" > wrote in message
...
> I have a linksys BEFW11S4 Router and WPC11ver3 wireless
> card. It will work normally when 802.1 authentication is
> turned off, but when I turn it on the connection (link)
> will disconnect in exactly 3 min., a message appears
> telling me one or more wireless connections are available,
> and I have to press the connect ket to get it to link back
> up. Linksys support doesn't know the solution.

[Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]]

If you don't have an 802.1x authentication server on your network, then you
should NOT turn this on.

Matt wrote:
> I have a linksys BEFW11S4 Router and WPC11ver3 wireless
> card. It will work normally when 802.1 authentication is
> turned off, but when I turn it on the connection (link)
> will disconnect in exactly 3 min., a message appears
> telling me one or more wireless connections are available,
> and I have to press the connect ket to get it to link back
> up. Linksys support doesn't know the solution.

--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)

[yellowpike]

Barb
Please bear with me, I'm trying to get a better understanding of all
wireless aspects.
In regards to Matt's observation, according to their web site, LinkSys
supports
802.1x authentication on both the router and wireless card. With that said,
assuming he is using Windows XP, Wouldn't 802.1 be "available" on the
wireless network if he enabled it ? Wouldn't the 802.1x authentication
server be the computer running XP.

Inquisitively,
yellowpike

"Matt" > wrote in message
...
> I have a linksys BEFW11S4 Router and WPC11ver3 wireless
> card. It will work normally when 802.1 authentication is
> turned off, but when I turn it on the connection (link)
> will disconnect in exactly 3 min., a message appears
> telling me one or more wireless connections are available,
> and I have to press the connect ket to get it to link back
> up. Linksys support doesn't know the solution.

[Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]]

when they say it "supports 802.1x" it means that it will work seamlessly
with hardware/software that performs authentication. this is usually done in
an enterprise/corp environment with a radius server. if you don't have an
authentication server, you can't use 802.1x. Windows XP is not an
authentication server.

yellowpike wrote:
> Barb
> Please bear with me, I'm trying to get a better understanding of all
> wireless aspects.
> In regards to Matt's observation, according to their web site, LinkSys
> supports
> 802.1x authentication on both the router and wireless card. With that
> said, assuming he is using Windows XP, Wouldn't 802.1 be "available"
> on the wireless network if he enabled it ? Wouldn't the 802.1x
> authentication server be the computer running XP.
>
> Inquisitively,
> yellowpike
>
> "Matt" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I have a linksys BEFW11S4 Router and WPC11ver3 wireless
>> card. It will work normally when 802.1 authentication is
>> turned off, but when I turn it on the connection (link)
>> will disconnect in exactly 3 min., a message appears
>> telling me one or more wireless connections are available,
>> and I have to press the connect ket to get it to link back
>> up. Linksys support doesn't know the solution.

--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)

[yellowpike]

Barb,
In effect I had WEP (keys,encryption, etc.) "as part" of 802.1x .
Thank you for clearing up my misconception.

Sincerely,
yellowpike


"Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]" > wrote in message
...
> when they say it "supports 802.1x" it means that it will work seamlessly
> with hardware/software that performs authentication. this is usually done
in
> an enterprise/corp environment with a radius server. if you don't have an
> authentication server, you can't use 802.1x. Windows XP is not an
> authentication server.
>
> yellowpike wrote:
> > Barb
> > Please bear with me, I'm trying to get a better understanding of all
> > wireless aspects.
> > In regards to Matt's observation, according to their web site, LinkSys
> > supports
> > 802.1x authentication on both the router and wireless card. With that
> > said, assuming he is using Windows XP, Wouldn't 802.1 be "available"
> > on the wireless network if he enabled it ? Wouldn't the 802.1x
> > authentication server be the computer running XP.
> >
> > Inquisitively,
> > yellowpike
> >
> > "Matt" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> I have a linksys BEFW11S4 Router and WPC11ver3 wireless
> >> card. It will work normally when 802.1 authentication is
> >> turned off, but when I turn it on the connection (link)
> >> will disconnect in exactly 3 min., a message appears
> >> telling me one or more wireless connections are available,
> >> and I have to press the connect ket to get it to link back
> >> up. Linksys support doesn't know the solution.
>
> --
> Barb Bowman
> Expert Zone Columnist
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> MS-MVP (Windows)
>
>
>

[Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]]

It will get a lot more interesting with WPA (WiFi Protected Access) ;-)

yellowpike wrote:
> Barb,
> In effect I had WEP (keys,encryption, etc.) "as part" of 802.1x .
> Thank you for clearing up my misconception.
>
> Sincerely,
> yellowpike
>
>
> "Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]" > wrote in message
> ...
>> when they say it "supports 802.1x" it means that it will work
>> seamlessly with hardware/software that performs authentication. this
>> is usually done in an enterprise/corp environment with a radius
>> server. if you don't have an authentication server, you can't use
>> 802.1x. Windows XP is not an authentication server.
>>
>> yellowpike wrote:
>>> Barb
>>> Please bear with me, I'm trying to get a better understanding of all
>>> wireless aspects.
>>> In regards to Matt's observation, according to their web site,
>>> LinkSys supports
>>> 802.1x authentication on both the router and wireless card. With
>>> that said, assuming he is using Windows XP, Wouldn't 802.1 be
>>> "available" on the wireless network if he enabled it ? Wouldn't the
>>> 802.1x authentication server be the computer running XP.
>>>
>>> Inquisitively,
>>> yellowpike
>>>
>>> "Matt" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> I have a linksys BEFW11S4 Router and WPC11ver3 wireless
>>>> card. It will work normally when 802.1 authentication is
>>>> turned off, but when I turn it on the connection (link)
>>>> will disconnect in exactly 3 min., a message appears
>>>> telling me one or more wireless connections are available,
>>>> and I have to press the connect ket to get it to link back
>>>> up. Linksys support doesn't know the solution.
>>
>> --
>> Barb Bowman
>> Expert Zone Columnist
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> MS-MVP (Windows)

--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)