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Offline Ken

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« on: October 19, 2006, 01:27:18 PM »
I had to spend some time in the hospital recently (not life threatening) and had my laptop and there was a strong wireless signal.  Windows computers could log into the system, but my mac lacked the necessary protocol choice to access the network.  Anyone else run into this  I think it came up as "Enterprise"  Or WPAEP.  

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« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2006, 09:00:39 PM »
Hi Ken, sorry to here about your recent stay. I hope at least the hospital had a good Electronic Medical Records system in place (my current job is developing such software smile.gif ).

What version of OS X do you have? I'm pretty sure that the WPA Enterprise was added either late in the 10.3.x versions, or early in the 10.4.x. I'm guessing that your OS wasn't updated to handle the new authentication methods.
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« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2006, 09:45:24 PM »
Either it was a different set of letters or you were trying to log in to a very expensive Uninterruptable Power Supply -> <http://www.superwarehouse.com/...WPAEP-S2/p/2400>

OTOH:
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WPA-Enterprise includes all of the features of WPA-PSK plus support for 802.1x RADIUS authentication and is appropriate in those cases where a RADIUS server is deployed.
That certainly clears up things for me. wallbash.gif

And even more than you'd want to know from <WIKI>
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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2006, 10:10:20 PM »
What I really liked was SuperWarehouse's price listing of $6k and change, but with the gentle suggestion . . .Please Call.

When you get yours, Jim, would you report on its feartures and benefits? toothgrin.gif
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2006, 10:58:41 PM »
QUOTE(giantmike @ Oct 19 2006, 09:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hi Ken, sorry to here about your recent stay. I hope at least the hospital had a good Electronic Medical Records system in place (my current job is developing such software smile.gif ).

What version of OS X do you have? I'm pretty sure that the WPA Enterprise was added either late in the 10.3.x versions, or early in the 10.4.x. I'm guessing that your OS wasn't updated to handle the new authentication methods.


Thanks for the thoughts.  I'm running 10.4.8 and I thought the latest airport drivers.  The IT guy at the hospital said that none of the Macs could log on to the system.  Windows XP does have the appropriate security patches though and apparently apple does not.  I wish I had more detailed info about the protocol they are running.  Just wanted to know if anyone else has a commercial security system that excludes Macs.

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