Wpa2/peap on 1230

Question

Our company will soon roll out wireless (5500 controller and 1140 APs), we're going to utilize PEAP to authenticate agains Active Directory.  To test things out, i used an old Aironet 1230 ap and a Win2k radius server.  I was able to set up PEAP authentication, and my client, both a XP laptop and a Blackberry connected successfully but only with 128 bit WEP.  It does not work with WPA/WPA2.
It seems like a client problem, perhaps on the client.  "Enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network" setting is greyed out if I select WPA or WPA2.  However, my Blackberry won't connect either, unless WEP is selected as the cipher.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

802.1x is for WEP encryption.  If that is what you want to use with PEAP then you need to configure your client with Open and WEP, then you can select 802.1x.  This would still allow you to use PEAP/LEAP/EAP-FAST.
If you want to use WPA/WPA2 encryption then select WPA/WPA2, then choose PEAP or Smart Card or Certificate.  Since you choose WPA/WPA2 you are not needing 802.1x WEP.
What you are seeing is the proper way the client should function.  On that first page you are defining the way that the data is going to be encrypted.
I hope this clears things up for you.
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Seth