We are encountering an issue where the following happens:
- A PIV card is in the machine (Dell E7450 w/ Windows 8.1) and we attempt to connect to an EAP wireless network. Normally we would be prompted for the PIV PIN in order to authenticate to the network
- We then remove the PIV card from the machine mid authentication
- Wait about 30 seconds
- Reinsert the PIV card and log in to the machine
- Attempt to connect to the wi-fi network
- The wlan autoconfig service is essentialy broken. We will no longer be able to connect to the wireless, it will say Cannot connect, or No Networks Available.
- Restarting the wlan autoconfig service reenables the ability to connect to the wi-fi network
Speculation: Somehow forcing a failed authentication to the EAP enabled wifi network causes the entire wlan autoconfig service to be broken.
This behavior was confirmed using multiple smartcard readers (built in and usb).
The same network with Windows 7 devices authenticating in the same way does not exhibit the same behavior.
Has anyone else seen this, or does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?