Always prompted for "802.1X Authentication" user name and password

Hi,
Just had the logic board replaced in my Macbook Pro, but that's an different story...

The most recent side effect of this is that I am always prompted for my password/user name when I connect to the wireless network at work.

Obviously, I enter the name and password. However, I didn't used to have to do this. In other words, it's not being saved.

Any suggestions on what I can do so it's saved again?

The Network preference panel reports:
Authenticated via PEAP (Inner Protocol:GTC)

The 802.1X pane shows I have 1 'User Profiles':
WPA:<network>
Which has:
my name
a password
Authentications enabled:
PEAP
TTLS
EAP-FAST

Macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 13, 2009 7:20 AM

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Jan 13, 2009 8:06 AM in response to Kevin Hoyt

Hi,

it might have something to do with your logic board exchange. Your MAC address (Media Access Control, Ethernet-ID, AirPort-ID, Hardware Address or what you want to call it) has changed. Every network interface has a distinct address which looks like that: 01:23:45:ab:cd:ef

I would ask your company's admin first if it has something to with you having a new MAC address.
Alternatively you could try to remove the wlan from Sys Prefs/Network/AirPort/Options/Preferred Networks. Also remove any saved passwords of this network from your keychain and then try adding it again with the remember-checkbox on.

Björn

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Always prompted for "802.1X Authentication" user name and password

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