Flockle  Freshman Member

I see there is no recent updates to the firmware for this, but my router is starting to reboot regularly again. Is time to renew the router. Its location is a cool area so I dont think its a heat problem.

Oh and if you do a search on MS site, there is no mention of any problems.

Looks like it is a Surface driver problem and there does not seem to be an update for it, even for later Surface pro. I am resigned to the fact that surface can connect when PMF is set to required on the VMG so Surface must be working OK in respect of handling PMF, but the VMG wont allow the Surface to connect when Capable…

Thanks Hikari, well I too think there is an issue with Surface_2 and confirmed on search results. The Surface_2 is supposed to be uptodate, and we have 2 that have the same problem. The 2 Surface tablets are on autoupdate and we see them regularly updating On MS site, the driver update is no possibly by simply renewing the…

So it seems that the Surface_2 is using PMF so now I wonder why the Surface_2 wont connect to the Wireless port when Capable is selected. My Inspiron which uses PMF connects OK whether Capable or Required is selected. Strange.

Thanks Hikari. From the manual the following... Select Capable to encrypt management frames of wireless clients that support MFP. Clients that do not support MFP will still be allowed to join the wireless network but will remain unprotected. So from the above, I would expect access to be allowed when Capable is selected if…

Stunned..

Further to the above, is anyone using PMF (Protected Management Frames). Its an option under the 'other' Tab in Wireless settings (page 135 of manual). There are three setting for this option, Disable, Capable and Required. Using an early Surface 2 Tablet, if the option of capable is selected which means devices that want…

Hi, thanks, matter resolved in the interim, thank you very much. Great service.

Hi, I used Firefox and also tried IE.