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20080124 Thursday January 24, 2008
Mac Book Pro with VPN Tip: "Driver Failure" Computers

I'm just putting this out there so people who have the same problem I did might find this solution in a Google search.

Problem: On MacBookPro your VPN fails.  Get error "Driver Failure" 

If you use Cisco's VPN client then you just get an immediate failure.  But if you open the Notifications window you will see this error:

 

Initializing the connection...
Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client.
Reason 440: Driver Failure.

Connection terminated on: Jan 24, 2008 10:16:42        Duration:
Not connected.

 

Shimo prints this error:

Shimo VPN Error: Driver Failure

 
Solution:

Check to see if you are using the built-in Ethernet port and have the AirPort turned on.  If so, the solution is to turn off the AirPort while you use the Ethernet port, or unplug the Ethernet port and use the AirPort if there is WiFi available.

My guess is that the VPN client is trying to use the AirPort to make the connection but your MPB is using the Ethernet port.  This causes a conflict and the error.

Note, this is for Tiger (10.4).  I don't know if this happens with Leopard (10.5).


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Comments:

Well we are still doing the Guessing game in non-Microsoft world eh!! I thought that was just Microsoft, Guess and Reboot, or Plug and Pray.

:)

Just my 2 cents.

Posted by Sajith P on January 24, 2008 at 11:49 AM PST #

Why don't you use punchin ? It is leveraging native IPsec stack in OS X so no driver problems are to be expected.

Posted by Vladimir Kotal on January 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM PST #

I have a Sony Vaio and a company vpn set up for working from home. I am also getting the failure to connect reason 440: driver failure. Any suggestions on the pc side?

Thanks very much if you can help.

Posted by Lee on March 01, 2008 at 04:35 AM PST #

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