Cisco Anyconnect Not Connecting To Wifi

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This is an issue where Cisco Anyconnect fails to connect to the home wireless network and keeps going into a loop by scanning all the networks in the list and is not able to associate any wireless network.

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The issue is related to a hidden WIFI defined in the Cisco AnyConnect configurations file for the Cisco AnyConnect NAM module and can be found the following bug articles recently filed for this issue by Cisco

Cisco Anyconnect Not Connecting To Wifi Extender

CSCvt74330. The known affected release is 4.8(3036)

  1. You should also see the VPN connection as the top connection in the network connections taskbar icon, with the Wi-Fi network below it: You can open Task Manager to look for the CMD process running in the background after Cisco Anyconnect connects to a network, to verify if the scheduled task is indeed running as intended.
  2. Sep 06, 2011 Now Cisco AnyConnect will say ‘ NAM service unavailable ‘ Now Windows will use the native WiFi client to connect to the WiFi When you reboot your system, the NAM service will start and may cause problem again. You can disable this service in Services management console to prevent that.

Symptom for the Cisco AnyConnect wireless loop.

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When admin configured wireless network is hidden and configured for SSO. The user experience the client not able to switch over to user defined wireless network when the hidden network not found until the user cancel the SSO authentication prompt and manually select the user defined network.

The hidden wireless network could be defined in the configurations file as stated above.

Workaround

Antivirus or firewall issue: Antivirus software can at times interfere with the connection process of the AnyConnect Client VPN and not allow it to connect to external networks or servers because of security reasons. Many times, it will block many incoming and outgoing connections.

You will need to cancel authentication prompt and manually select user define network or unhide the admin defined hidden WiFi network in the config file found in the the path below:

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c:programdatacisconetwork

Per Cisco support, it is going to be fixed in Cisco AnyConnect stack version 4.9.

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Thanks for reading and let me know if this is not accurate.

~best

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Hamza Anwar