Solved: University WiFi (eduroam with WPA2/EAP)

[Guest MrPuddington]

Hello

When I tried to connect to the university WiFi (eduroam) with the stock software and XpressConnect, I got a lot of problems: the wifi manager crashed regularly, I got disconnected frequently, and reconnection failed most of the time. I think this is because eduroam uses WPA2/EAP instead of basic WPA2 authentication (which worked fine for me).

Upgrading to Android 2.2 seems to have solved most of the problems for me, and I just get very occasional disconnects now. This is what I did:

1. Upgrade to Android 2.2. I used Japanese Jellyfish (JJ) RLS6 because of the official source code, but I guess other images would work, too.

2. Download the server certificate (check with your institution). I had to use http://realmb.com/droidCert/ because the university pages do not supply the correct mime type, and so the phone does not recognise the certificate.

3. Use Wi-Fi settings to connect manually. I selected:

EAP method: PEAP

Phase 2 authentication: MSCHAPV2

Identity: my login@institution

Password: my password

Check the details with the WiFi network. I did not select an anonymous identity nor a certificate.

And as I said it just worked. My guess is that Android 2.2 fixed this, but of course there could be other factors involved.

If you are using eduroam, please report your experience via the poll, so that we can get an idea about what seems to work.

[Guest Ralph Martin]

I can get onto Eduroam OK here - but the version here uses 802.1x without a certificate.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Ralph Martin

[Guest Seb801]

On 2.1 i got to work with manual edit the "wpa_supplicant.conf".

Insert:

network={

ssid="eduroam"

scan_ssid=1

proto=WPA

key_mgmt=WPA-EAP

pairwise=TKIP

group=TKIP

eap=TTLS

anonymous_identity="[email protected]"

identity="*****@abcde.com"

password="*******"

phase2="auth=PAP"

}

Edited March 9, 2011 by Seb801