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Unable to securely connect to a new college n type wireless cisco peap system

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February 16, 2014 10:22:02 PM

I have an HP G60 Series 507-DX, PC, Win 7 64 bit and have a stock Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 802.11 b/g/n stock network card installed under the laptop in a motherboard slot beneath a plastic cover on laptop bottom. I can connect to the new wireless system using only guest/visitor unsecured network links. I can not connect to the network under a secure link. I get a "authentication failed" error when attempting to connect to the secured link under student.

After working with a college tech specialist for 1.5 hours in my network settings, advanced / other, we found that no cisco peap was available to be selected in my network settings/ preferences/advanced settings area. They are using WPA2-Enterprize for their secure connection definition type. We searched for cisco peap which they say I need but it is not there in my network card choices for It to be selected. The tech team states that I need to buy an IO 625 network adapter to fix this from the bookstore to fix this issue. Doing this I would need to occupy a USB port and buy the adapter.

Can I source a download to fix this issue? If not can I buy a new mini network card or full 1X card to fix this?

There is room in the card area under my laptop for the 1X size card, according to a blog I read, but we know the accuracy of blogs, right!

If a new network mini card or 1X card will work, to resolve my no secure connect issue, can I get one that is also Bluetooth capable. Because I don't have that and if I buy a new card, I should attempt to add that in the cards capabilities as well If I am going new?

So I am searching for a download as a condition fix, or, a mini or 1X card, capable of cisco peap & Bluetooth which would replace my stock Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 802.11 b/g/n network adapter, which is currently in my G60 507DX series pc. I hope I got all the details in that are needed to resolve this because I am not Cisco Certified or A+ for that matter, just an intermediate end user here. Thanks for everyone's help and reply here, and all have a great day as well !

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February 19, 2014 1:11:17 PM

I've never seen any type of cisco security option in any card, but there are some wireless cards that can't authenticate to cisco wireless access points. The Lenovo T41 and T42 models had that issue, had to use an external card for that, and even then some did not work. We actually had to use sisco branded PCMCI cards in those systems.

Did you try a new driver for the network card?

You may need to contact HP support to find out what add-on cards would work for your laptop. The antenna connections may differ from card to card.
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