Kalle Valo wrote: > "ext Peter Flynn" <peter at silmaril.ie> writes: > >> Pretty much everything is working on my N800, including all my WEP >> connections. WPA, however, is not. >> >> The campus LAN uses a hidden SSID and requires my MAC address and >> provides a username and password. This works fine in WPA Enterprise >> using Network-Manager on my Ubuntu Gutsy laptop: >> >> Network Name: (the SSID) >> EAP: PEAP >> Key: Auto Default >> Phase2: None >> Identity: (username) >> Password: (password) >> Anon Ident: (username again) >> Client Cert: none >> CA Cert: none >> Priv Key: none >> Priv Key password: blank >> >> In OS 2007, I am using: >> >> Connection name: (I made one up) >> Connection type: WLAN >> SSID: (the SSID) >> Network is hidden: checked >> Mode: Infrastructure >> Security: WPA with EAP >> EAP Type: PEAP >> Select cert: none >> EAP method: MSCHAPv2 >> Usename: (username) >> Password: (password) >> Prompt for password: unchecked (ie No) >> >> In Advanced/EAP: >> Use manual username: checked >> Manual username: (username) >> Require client auth: checked > > I think you should try with client auth disabled, because you have > disabled similar sounding setting (Client Cert) from Network Manager. From memory, I tired it, but the result was that it then doesn't prompt for any password, and a password is essential in this configuration. I was under the impression (obviously wrong) that "Require client auth" meant "use a password". I'll be on campus tomorrow so I'll try. >> Is there a known problem with WPA authentication? Or am I doing >> something obviously wrong? > > I'm not aware of any big problems with WPA authentication. With EAP > there's always a Radius server involved, so maybe this is a some kind > of interoperability problem with the Radius server? Possible, but I'd need to get the network guys to dig into the Radius server logs for me. > If you have the time, I would appreciate if you could file a bug > report to bugzilla. Try to include as much as information as possible. No problem (what's the address of the maemo bugzilla?) ///Peter
