windows-7 Maybe many students keep asking the same question about IIUM wireless for Windows 7. Since Windows 7 beta was promoted and tested, I’m looked for the solution so that it  can be use in Windows 7. Alhamdulillah…it was successful when I’m using a software so called “vista64peap.exe”

When I was testing the beta version of Windows 7, I had a problem to setup the wireless network. IIUM uses Aruba Networks for its wireless infrastructure.  Users are required to register their MAC address to use the wireless service. Furthermore, Aruba uses PEAP-GTC ( Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Generic Token Card) for its authentication. Altough PEAP is supported in WIndows 7, it’s  only support for windows PEAP implementation

I tried installing the PEAP-GTC Supplicant for Vista. In WIndows 7 Beta, I think its install ok; but when I tried to select the methods it produces an error. Unfortunately I forgot what the error was. At  any rate I was unable to connect. I tried other plugins from other vendors but still the same error occured.

With Windows 7 RC, I also tried installing the PEAP-GTC supplicant from Aruba. Installation was fine, but somehow I couldn’t select the eap-token needed by Aruba. After several tries I give up, for a while, since I had to finish up some proposals.

Then I tried the Cisco Aironet Client program. It support PEAP, LEAP and EAP. The program installed without a hitch. Once installed, it Allows me to select Cisco PEAP for authentication in the wireless setting. After selecting the required entry, I tried to connect to IIUM network. To my surprise it works. Alhamdullillah, altough just a small victory, but it is a real satisfaction for me.

I let it run for a day, to check connection stability, which many Vista users complained. They said that the connection sometime died and they had to re-register/login to get connected. Again, to my surprise the connection remain strong even when I test the network for various chores such as download large file, internet access and such.

My only concern is that this might only work my a particular network card. So I  am going to test this setup on a wireless enabled laptop next week. Hopefully I’ll be able to connect, too.  (Source : http://blogs.iium.edu.my/ariffin)

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