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- inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Why don't you title this right, it's not the wireless it's a TYPE of authentication scheme you were trying to get working. You make it sound like the wireless on the macbook pro doesn't work. Which of course you did to get lots of diggs and attention.
- thespacepope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5duh, he actually does mean 802.1X EAP not 802.11
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ inkhead
the title is perfectly correct you moron. 802.1x is a type of authentication. - Nemesiz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Um... you can take them back you know. You can 'undigg' things through your profile.
- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Seriously. Inkhead is the one that got it wrong. 802.1x is a type of authentication used in 802.11x networks. Stop modding misinformation up.
- HeavyMetaler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@Inkhead
Your An Idiot, Maybe you should google 802.1x before you open your mouth FOOL! - shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It was that widespread. Everyone who had a macbook pro who had to do 802.1x authentication to get on a wireless network did not work. This isn't your home wireless with WEP or WPA, this is using the 802.1x EAP type authentication. Do not confuse this with 802.11(a,b or g) as other comments have.
- LuckOTheIrish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why are individuals ripping on this guy for trying to spread a helpful word? Both myself and a co-worker have new MBPros and work at a university with 802.1x authentication and it has been quite annoying that it hasn't worked properly. As others have stated it does "authenticate" but doesn't grab an IP address so the connection was useless until now. All other wireless connections seem to be fine (WPA at home). This was actually quite a clever solution as the Intel MacMini didn't have this issue even though it is the same hardware.
I am just happy for a solution and don't quite understand why most of the comments are either saying the 802.1x problems don't really exist, quibbling over what 802.1x is, or they are ripping the author for trying to make it sensationalistic? - shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Anyone was anyone who was using the EAP based authentication (802.1x) used on a lot of corp and university LANs, not anyone who used wireless as you seem to think.
https://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/wireless/intelmacwep.htm
http://helpdesk.coloradocollege.edu/index.php
You will kindly notice no "some of the macbook pros" or anything like that, this issue seemed to affect all of them in this situation. I have been following it for a couple of weeks along with some other wireless issues they are having before upgrading. - agaul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well, I for one appreciated this link because it solved my problem connecting to the wireless network and university, using 802.11x PEAP protocol. Before this I was able to connect, but unable to do anything, like surf the web or access email. Wireless worked perfect on my WPA network at home. After checking with tech support on campus, they said I wasn't the only person with a MacBook Pro who was having this same problem. After installing this driver my problem is now solved, so a good digg for me.
- XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5well, if its in the apple support thread, id imagine it would have nothing to do with windows vista....
- thespacepope, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5He didn't even get the number right. 802.11x is wireless ethernet. 802.1 is... something about LAN architecture
- charmedguy18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Maybe it's only if it's secure wifi?
- minamhere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Works for me too, finally internet at school.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Parent is an asshat and seems to not know what 802.1x is.
- inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2In general (NOT for this problem) but I notice some other posters who had problems getting their macs to work in the office... when entering a hex key password (say like a dlink router) just put a "$" before any password when the mac asks you for the wireless network password. Works like a charm ;-) (for that issue) not the 802.1x
- Zeos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Speak for yourself ....I use EAP/TLS on my home network backed up by freeradius ;)
My macbook is scheduled for delivery next tuesday, so this is definatly nice to know. - dignon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gawd, PC people are such dicks... cause nothing ever goes wrong with PCs. Gimme a break.
Anyway, we just tried this solution on my friends MBP and its working fine now. It worked fine before, just not with certain LEAP wireless points. So lets see, by the time we even realized there was an issue, it had already been fixed... gee, that happened exactly ZERO times for me on Windows. - shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I *did* see the x. the x is correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.1X , http://www.answers.com/topic/802-1x read about it. The x is not being used as a variable where you can substitute a 1 in there and make is 802.11x where the x is a variable for a b or g. Just because you have seen something similar does not mean it is the same.
- ScnnrDrkly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Agreed. No Digg. This is kinda sensationalist in nature.
I really wish we could get a nega-Digg feature like we do with comments. - sunfang, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3thanks, this worked for me!
- shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You are probably connecting to WPA, WEP or open wireless networks. If you haven't had to visit this screen to setup then it would not have affected you.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~pkilab/greenpass/gp-web-images/internetconnect2.png
Which as you can see also shows the title of the post was correct. - 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Now that sounds a little bit more like reality. Getting Macs to connect to the wireless where I work has always been trouble, so one authnetication scheme not working wouldn't be a huge surprise or a huge issue.
- sq2shooter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I've had my MacBook for 4 weeks now and have connected to wireless networks all over the place without any issues. What in the world are they talking about? This has to be a select few notebooks.
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3 I thought Macs were the Greatest computers ever. This must be a hoax. The Mac never has any issues, it is the perfect computer.
- aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Ditto. Or is this perhaps talking about problems with it under Windows Dual Booting? Hmm.
- shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OK most people :) I have actually tossed around the idea of loading the tinyPEAP stuff and using radius myself. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.
- TripOverFeet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Is this related to Windows? Every MacBook I've used has worked perfecty.
- shaddow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0oops dupe
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -15/+13You have to be kidding me, their new laptop had this magnitude of problem and it hasn't been mentioned anywhere? That's amazing, no wonder everyone thinks Apple has good quality, the media doesn't report all the defects. It's either that or somehow I've missed the flood of stories about this problem.
- roderashe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I wouldn't say it's 'that' widespread based on the stuff I've seen. But, like anything, if there's a big enough glitch everyone will find out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4"My friend and I figured out how to get 802.1x working on a macbook pro, which was previously not working for anyone."
*****! This is just plain *****! Gasp... Please define the word "ANYONE" because, to quote movie that I really like, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I have yet to see ONE Macbook with this problem that you claim affects everyone.
In short, get a goddamn clue before posting misleading and inaccurate information.
Moron. - mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1This is bs. Apple MacBook Pro's work perfectly. There aren't any problems with them. This is probably some M$ Windoesn't fanboy's idea of a prank. Apple makes the best products in the world. These bugs only happen in windows notebooks. My guess is that this "bug" was from some fool who tried to ruin their MacBook with M$ *****.
I'm reporting this as inaccurate.
04/01 - vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1i thought it was a dualbooting windows issue... : ( i want my digg back
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1"Do not confuse this with 802.11(a,b or g) as other comments have."
Then the ***** who subitted it shouldnt have said 802.1XXXXXX (did you see the XxX?) - TripOverFeet, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1What a dumb comment. It's a waste of Kevin's servers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1P.S. And ***** all the ***** who down-dugg me.
You know Dominatus' post is as ***** lame as you are. Thanks for being consistent :-)
Morons. I really hate stupid people, no better than monkeys are they.
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