04-17-2009 09:33 AM - edited 07-03-2021 05:27 PM
I am deploying a new LAN Controller and 1142N APs. Even though I have gone through and verified that all the N setting are enabled and what I believe to be correct, I can still only see the G or A networks from a laptop with an N card.
04-17-2009 10:58 AM
Two questions:
- Is your laptop card Wi-Fi certified for N draft 2.0?
- Is your laptop card running the latest drivers?
- Can you go into the properties of the card driver and disable everything but 802.11n support?
- Please be sure you don't have a ThinkPad with the n-disabled 4965 variant (I have that card).
04-17-2009 11:45 AM
The laptop is a Dell E6500 with an intel 5100 AGN card which appears, according to what I find on the intel site, to be certified draft 2.0. I'll try updating the drivers and disabling everything but N and see if that helps. The network is at another site so I'll have to wait until I can get back over there to test it out.
04-17-2009 12:37 PM
When you connect to the ssid, what signal speed is windows zero (or other utility) showing. In order for 802.11N to work, you need to enable WMM on the ssid, make sure the MCD data rates are set and that the channels are bonded and set to 40mhz channel width.
04-17-2009 01:04 PM
All of the SSIDs show the WMM Policy as allowed. The RRM DCA channel width is set to 40Mhz under 'a' and the selected channels are: 36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64,100,104,108,112,116,132,136,140,149,153,157,161
802.11n is enabled on bother the a/n and b/g/n networks.
04-17-2009 01:35 PM
Have you tried to manually set the channel to see if that works for you. If you look under the wireless tab in the 802.11a/n and then choose an ap, do you see the channels bonded there. I know you have it set globally for RRM, but look at the ap and try to manually set it.
04-17-2009 09:23 PM
What L2 authentication method are you using?
Only WPA2-AES (or none) is supported. If you have WEP/WPA/WPA2-TKIP/MAC then your client may not see it as 802.11N.
04-20-2009 01:07 PM
That was it! I was using WPA-TKIP for my authentication. I created a "test" WLAN with no authentication and N was available.
Thanks for you help.
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