Cisco 1232AP and Z-Com client card authentication problems

We're having trouble getting our Z-Com radios connecting to 1232 APs.
For the AP, we only have the "B" radio enabled, with everything set to
defaults except the SSID and channel.

Z-Com cards are being used in Affirmative thin clients and when we
switch cards to a Cisco 350 adapter, everything works fine.

Affirmative says that Z-com cards work perfectly with Cisco 1220B
access points.

Any ideas?

Thanks

A good guess would be the problem is that the client is enabled for
802.11G and the access point is not. If a Cisco access point is setup
for B only it will not allow the G clients to connect. The easiest
solution is to change the access point to support 802.11G. If you wish
to have client adapters connect that have 802.11G you need to set them
up for 802.11B only mode or it will not work.

The text below is from the Cisco 802.11G config tab and does not format
well into this message but you can see what is enabled. All settings
without an asterisk need to be required and all with an asterisk need
to be enabled.

Enable Radio: Enable Disable
Current Status (Software/Hardware): Enabled Up
Role in Radio Network:
(Fallback mode upon loss
of Ethernet connection) Access Point Root (Fallback to Radio
Island)
Access Point Root (Fallback to Radio Shutdown)
Access Point Root (Fallback to Repeater)
Scanner
Repeater
Workgroup Bridge

Data Rates:
1.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
2.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
5.5Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 6.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 9.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
11.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 12.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 18.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 24.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 36.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 48.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable
* 54.0Mb/sec Require Enable Disable



(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> We're having trouble getting our Z-Com radios connecting to 1232 APs.
> For the AP, we only have the "B" radio enabled, with everything set to
> defaults except the SSID and channel.
>
> Z-Com cards are being used in Affirmative thin clients and when we
> switch cards to a Cisco 350 adapter, everything works fine.
>
> Affirmative says that Z-com cards work perfectly with Cisco 1220B
> access points.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:06:14 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

~ We're having trouble getting our Z-Com radios connecting to 1232 APs.
~ For the AP, we only have the "B" radio enabled, with everything set to
~ defaults except the SSID and channel.
~
~ Z-Com cards are being used in Affirmative thin clients and when we
~ switch cards to a Cisco 350 adapter, everything works fine.
~
~ Affirmative says that Z-com cards work perfectly with Cisco 1220B
~ access points.
~
~ Any ideas?
~
~ Thanks

Here's one TAC engineers list of things to wiggle when some legacy
client has a problem connecting:

Following is a list of AP features that sometimes need to be toggled; the
vendor would be in the best position to know which ones they prefer:
1) Aironet extensions on/off (some vendors prefer 'off' - radio settings)
- 'no dot11 extensions aironet' under interface dot110
2) preamble to short (the default is long - radio settings) - 'no preamble
long' under interface dot110
3) encap 802.1h (instead of rfc1042 - radio settings)
4) data rates 1 & 2M to basic & other rates to allow (radio settings)
5) multiple bssids off ('show run | include mbssid' returns nothing )
7) 'no dot11 qos mode' in interface config mode (default is on)
8) vlans - some vendors have difficulty with vlans
9) wpa handshake timeout - some vendors need longer ('dot11 wpa handshake
timeout' command)
10) some vendors count bits differently in 128-bit-wep - try 40-bit or
open

Good luck,

Aaron