How do I make a client card work with a non-Cisco access point?
A. The access point, not the client, controls interoperability. Make sure that the access point does not use any proprietary extensions or require firmware specific to the products of the manufacturer. Also, ensure that the access point is 802.11-compliant for the frequency band desired. Q. I am working a new install of WLC4402 and have found that the wireless handheld devices work fine. However, if they go into hybernation, authentication is lost and they have to reauthenticate all over again. Is this an expected behavior? A. It is normal behavior for any client (laptop/scanner/pda) to reauthenticate after power-save mode if it had been asleep for more than the WLAN session timeout and User Idle timeout periods.
A. The access point, not the client, controls interoperability. Make sure that the access point does not use any proprietary extensions, proprietary features, or requiring firmware specific to the products of the manufacturer. Also make sure that the access point is 802.11b-compliant. Q. My Cisco Aironet Clients associate to an Apple Airport Base Station without Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), but not with WEP. I have verified the keys, but they still do not associate. What is the issue? A. The Apple Airport uses WEP keys entered in ASCII. The Cisco Aironet products use hexadecimal. Use a $ symbol before the key to set a WEP key on an Airport in hex. Check the Airport Base Station Configurator to ensure that you use the correct key. Since that application is Java-based, it requires Mac Runtime Java (MRJ) and the swing libraries.
