How to establish a 802.1x Wifi connection

[Guest daniel2k10]

Hello guys,

just received my san fran yesterday.

I have already searched in this awesome forum but couldn't find such a topic.

My problem is that I'd like to connect my orange via wifi with the network of the university which uses that 802.1x technique.

Regularly you have to enter your user name and your password given by the university. But the San Fran just asks for a password instead of giving me wanted options, so that it is impossible to connect.

Anyone an idea??

[Guest ritterkeks]

wrong!

Android asks you to give a "keyring" password, so that your 802.1x password can be stored securely within the phone.

the real problem is, once you put in your self chosen password, the settings app crashes...

this has already been mentioned several times (see my signature for a link).

solution: manually add your -i guess- eduroam connection details...

[Guest daniel2k10]

wrong!

Android asks you to give a "keyring" password, so that your 802.1x password can be stored securely within the phone.

the real problem is, once you put in your self chosen password, the settings app crashes...

this has already been mentioned several times (see my signature for a link).

solution: manually add your -i guess- eduroam connection details...

no this is not the case. the application does not crash, it just says the password is wrong..

[Guest daniel2k10]

ok, I'm a noob, please help me..

I have got your point.. my fault.. but now I'm faced exactly your problem mentioned. The thread did not help me, because I don't know how to get in the directory where I can manuelly configure the connection.

[Guest kang.t7]

wrong!

Android asks you to give a "keyring" password, so that your 802.1x password can be stored securely within the phone.

the real problem is, once you put in your self chosen password, the settings app crashes...

Same thing happened me. IT FCs

"The application settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. PLease try again"

[Guest daniel2k10]

Same thing happened me. IT FCs

"The application settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. PLease try again"

For me it is a very hard bug, because I only have internet over the network on the universtiy. Searched yesterday the whole evening for a solution but couldnt find anything.

I would really thank everybody who has an idea of getting this fixed...

[Guest dbeckett]

My university uses this too, it uses Secure W2 wireless for its network

I got it to work by going into wireless&networks, wifi-settings, add wifi network

Type in the Network SSID name(the wireless network's name- case sensitive)

security-802.1x enterprise

(enter in your credential password)

EAP METHOD-TTLS

Phase 2 Authentication: PAP

Identity-Your university wireless login username e.g. student number

Wireless Password-your password

Thats the setup for mine, your university network may vary slightly, also if you make a mistake you can't edit the settings, you have to delete the network settings and start again

[Guest daniel2k10]

My university uses this too, it uses Secure W2 wireless for its network

I got it to work by going into wireless&networks, wifi-settings, add wifi network

Type in the Network SSID name(the wireless network's name- case sensitive)

security-802.1x enterprise

(enter in your credential password)

EAP METHOD-TTLS

Phase 2 Authentication: PAP

Identity-Your university wireless login username e.g. student number

Wireless Password-your password

Thats the setup for mine, your university network may vary slightly, also if you make a mistake you can't edit the settings, you have to delete the network settings and start again

Hey, very very much thanks to you guy!! Now it works for me, you really made my day!!! :)

Greets!!

[Guest jonas_football]

hey guys...i too have a san fransisco, and using this thread managed to connect to the university protected network!

The problem however is that now im connected to the wi-fi, but still dont recieve any internet... so there must be some kind of proxy setting or something that im still missing, so i was wondering any of you had this problem?

it says that i have sucesfully connected the the network and shows me a signal strenght of 3 or 4 bars, but dont recieve any data stream at all.

would really appriciate the help!

cheers

Jonas

[Guest jonas_football]

My university uses this too, it uses Secure W2 wireless for its network

I got it to work by going into wireless&networks, wifi-settings, add wifi network

Type in the Network SSID name(the wireless network's name- case sensitive)

security-802.1x enterprise

(enter in your credential password)

EAP METHOD-TTLS

Phase 2 Authentication: PAP

Identity-Your university wireless login username e.g. student number

Wireless Password-your password

Thats the setup for mine, your university network may vary slightly, also if you make a mistake you can't edit the settings, you have to delete the network settings and start again

Hi, i was wondering how you found out that this was your settings for your university?

because i used the same settings, and it connected to the wi-fi, but i dont get any internet connection, which is wierd.

so im thinking maybe i have to use some other settings?

thank you!

Jonas

[Guest jsebright]

Thanks for these hints - managed to get it working on our University network with 802.x EAP security by doing a manual setup similar to above but tweaking for slightly different protocols.

Very frustrating that it falls over on setup - I reflashed a few times thinking that there must be some other problem. Users without knowledge of these resources will be very stuck indeed.

[Guest lpinho]

Hi,

I had the same problem in my work place, after reading a few posts (several in this forum) I was able to "fix" this problem.

Basically you have a file, named wpa_supplicant.conf, this file can be found at "/data/misc/wifi/", in that file you will find all your wifi connections configurations.

What you need to do is, change that file to include the information of the 802.x EAP wifi network you want to connect to.

This is an example for my work network (WPA-EAP MsChapv2):

network={

ssid="<network ssid>"

key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X

eap=PEAP

identity="<windows user without the domain>"

password="<windows password>"

phase1="peapver=0"

phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"

priority=35

}

I didn't install any certificate or anything else, all I had to do was add this information to the end of the file.

To add this information I "pulled" the file (you can use adb pull command to pull the file into your pc), modified the file with a text editor (don't use windows notepad, it doesn't like linux text files, you can use notepad++ or editplus) and then push the file to the same place (once again using adb push)

It all depends on the specifics of your network, if you known someone that has a HTC connected to the network, he/she will have this file correctly built, you just have to get the file from him/her and set your credentials.

If I'm not mistaken, to push or pull this file, you need to root your phone (some roms are pre-rooted), otherwise you cannot see the file

Hope it guides you to the solution, regards,

L. Pinho

Note: I still have a problem connecting to my work network, sometimes it timesout trying to get a connection or getting an ip...

[Guest lpinho]

Hi,

I had the same problem in my work place, after reading a few posts (several in this forum) I was able to "fix" this problem.

Basically you have a file, named wpa_supplicant.conf, this file can be found at "/data/misc/wifi/", in that file you will find all your wifi connections configurations.

What you need to do is, change that file to include the information of the 802.x EAP wifi network you want to connect to.

This is an example for my work network (WPA-EAP MsChapv2):

network={

ssid="<network ssid>"

key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X

eap=PEAP

identity="<windows user without the domain>"

password="<windows password>"

phase1="peapver=0"

phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"

priority=35

}

I didn't install any certificate or anything else, all I had to do was add this information to the end of the file.

To add this information I "pulled" the file (you can use adb pull command to pull the file into your pc), modified the file with a text editor (don't use windows notepad, it doesn't like linux text files, you can use notepad++ or editplus) and then push the file to the same place (once again using adb push)

It all depends on the specifics of your network, if you known someone that has a HTC connected to the network, he/she will have this file correctly built, you just have to get the file from him/her and set your credentials.

If I'm not mistaken, to push or pull this file, you need to root your phone (some roms are pre-rooted), otherwise you cannot see the file

Hope it guides you to the solution, regards,

L. Pinho

Note: I still have a problem connecting to my work network, sometimes it timesout trying to get a connection or getting an ip...

Sorry to reply to my own post:

After installing the drivers found at this post: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...battery-report/, the timeout no longer occured, I've got a ZTE Blade fully working connected to a EAP network :P

[Guest Arr Too]

because i used the same settings, and it connected to the wi-fi, but i dont get any internet connection, which is wierd.

Lots of unis (and other places) also use a proxy (usually heavily filtered). So far, Android (well, the Blade's version at least) doesn't have any proxy settings at present (not even the Froyo ROMs), so you're stuck -- unless anyone knows of any new advances?