Enabling EAP-FAST wireless authentication method?
I have several test laptops dual booting Vista and Windows 7. Under Vista, installing the Dell wireless drivers also installs the Cisco modules and enables EAP-FAST as a selection option for authentication method when creating a wireless connection. Installing the same driver on the same PC under Win7 doesn't enable the Cisco options, so you can't create a connection. The Cisco modules are still intstalled, but they don't show up in the authentication method drop-down.This is true for various models of laptop, various models of wireless card, and various driver versions - all consistent in result.Anyone have any idea why, or how to connect to an EAP-FAST authenticated network?thanks
February 4th, 2009 8:39pm

Cisco will need to make a win7 driver available.Rating posts helps other users Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
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February 5th, 2009 4:25am

Cisco doesn't make the drivers - it's not a Cisco wireless card. Cisco provide modules that the driver providers implement. In this case, those modules are present and installed but they don't do anything. The installed driver works fine, but Windows 7 doesn't allow selection of the Cisco extentions.Do you have a reason for thinking it's Cisco that needs to change their part of the mix? I think it's just as likely to be something that Windows is doing differently, or something that is just disabled or absent in the beta. But I don't know that and was hoping someone could actually confirm where the issue is.
February 5th, 2009 6:20pm

Kevin,Are you experiencing this on the Beta build of Windows 7. If so upgrading to the RC build should fix the issue of EAP-FAST not showing up in the authentication drop down.Thanks,Ryan Menezes[MS]
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June 2nd, 2009 4:27am

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