Connecting to WPA/WPA2-Enterprised network

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hi all,
i just came to mcgill and was trying to connect to the school network. But it kept saying something like 'authorization failed'. School website has only instructions for BlackBerrys:
"Select wpa.mcgill.ca * (WPA/WPA2-Enterprise). Fill in the following fields:
Name: wpa.mcgill.ca *
SSID: wpa.mcgill.ca *
Security Type: PEAP
User Name: McGill Username
User password: McGill Password
CA Certificate: Thawte Premium Server CA
Inner Link Security: EAP-MS-CHAP V2
Token: None Selected
Server subject: blank
Server San: blank                                                                         "
Help plz
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idecline wrote:
hi all,
i just came to mcgill and was trying to connect to the school network. But it kept saying something like 'authorization failed'. School website has only instructions for BlackBerrys:
"Select wpa.mcgill.ca * (WPA/WPA2-Enterprise). Fill in the following fields:
Name: wpa.mcgill.ca *
SSID: wpa.mcgill.ca *
Security Type: PEAP
User Name: McGill Username
User password: McGill Password
CA Certificate: Thawte Premium Server CA
Inner Link Security: EAP-MS-CHAP V2
Token: None Selected
Server subject: blank
Server San: blank                                                                         "
Help plz
Try configuring your N97 with these instructions:
Since your WLAN network seems to require more advanced PEAP authentication settings you should probably create / edit appriate WLAN connection profile, known as (Internet) Access Point, manually in a following manner:
1. Go to Tools -> Settings -> Connection -> Network Destinations
2. Check if your earlier failed attempt to connect has already created an non-funtional IAP named as your WLAN network SSID (look for a entry named wpa.mcgill.ca) under "Internet" destination.
3. If you can see existing IAP named as your WLAN SSID then you can Edit that one with necessary changes. (skip to 7.)
4. If you don't see any existing IAPs that are named like your WLAN network then go to the desired "Destination" (e.g. Internet) and select Options -> Add Connection Method.
5. Assuming you are in the coverage area of your WLAN network you can let phone "Automatically check for connection methods" (i.e. phone scans available WLAN networks) and you should be able to select the correct WLAN network name (wpa.mcgill.ca) from the list. Once you have selected the WLAN network your "Internet" Destination should now have been added with a new Access Point (IAP) that is named "wpa.mcgill.ca". Note that at this point the particular connection method is still incorrectly configured for your purposes (since by defaul it has EAP-SIM & EAP-AKA authentication methods enabled).
6. Now you should manually Edit your newly created wpa.mcgill.ca Internet Access Point with necessary PEAP settings.
7. Configure following WLAN and authentication settings:
  "Connection name" defaults to name of your WLAN network (wpa.mcgill.ca) but you can also change this if you wish
- "Data Bearer" naturally needs to be "Wireless LAN"
- "WLAN network name" should match your WLAN network's name (SSID) exactly (wpa.mcgill.ca)
- "Network status": Public
- "WLAN network mode": Infrastructure
- "WLAN Security mode": WPA/WPA2
 => Go to "WLAN security settings"
- Ensure that "WPA/WPA2 mode is set to "EAP"
- Leave "WPA-2 Only mode" to "OFF" unless you are absolutely sure that your WLAN network is configured to stricly pure WPA2 mode (i.e. network might be configured to support both WPA and WPA2 security thus enabling WPA-2 Only mode on the phone will cause all your connection attempts to fail).
 => Go to "EAP plug-in configuration"
- Enable "EAP-PEAP" and make sure that "EAP-SIM" and "EAP-AKA" are disabled (via Options -> Disable)
 => Select "Configure" for EAP-PEAP authentication method
 - Leave "Personal Certificate" to "Not defined"
- Select "Thawte Premium Server CA" to be used as an "Authority certificate"
- Set "User name in use" to "User defined" (since there is no Personal Certificate where it could be read automatically)
- Enter your username (McGill Username) to "Username" field
- Set "Realm in use" to "User defined" and leave following "Realm" field empty.
- Note that in case your username (McGill Username) contains the realm (i.e. format is username@realm ) then you can enter realm part of your ID to "Realm" field and enter only the username part to the "Username" field.
- Configure "Allow PEAPv0" to Yes
- Configure both "Allow PEAPv1" and "Allow PEAPv2" to "No"
=> Go to "EAP's" tab to configure inner authentication method for the PEAP (use the small arrow pointing right on top of the screen to move between tabs)
- Enable "EAP-MSCHAPv2" authentication method and Disable all other methods (Option -> Enable / Disable)
- Select "Edit" for the EAP-MSCHAPv2
- Enter you username (McGill Username) to "User name" field
- Configure "Prompt password" to No or Yes depending on whether you want your password to be prompted everytime you make an connection or if you prefer saving your password to following "Password" field permanenly so that it won't be prompted during everytime you connect to this WLAN network with PEAP/EAP-MSCHAPv2 authentication.
- If you you selected "No" to password prompting then enter your password (McGill Password) to "Password" field.
=> Exit the configuration with "Back" (several times) and you should hopefully be able to connect with this setup.
If needed you can also change the priority order of the connection methods (IAP's) within the Internet Destination since your new connection most likely ended up being lowest priority WLAN connection within your Internet destination. This should however not be a problem unless you have some other WLAN networks defined as an IAP and these other WLAN networks are simultaneously available at the location of the wpa.mcgill.ca WLAN network.
Hope this helps you to get connected!!
Message Edited by saataja on 17-Sep-2009 05:16 PM