Setup Assistant and WiFi

Our wifi authentication system at work brings up a web page that allows us to login to our network after joining it. This works fine on iPads after their initial setup. On new iPads however, it appears that the Setup Assistant does not support this mechanism. Is there a workaround for this in Setup Assistant, or do we really need to connect every iPad to iTunes at setup?
Bob

kmv2009 wrote:
I have a brand new MB Air I jsut got today and haven't logged in to. Powered up, connected it to wifi and began Setup Assistant/Migration Assistant to transfer stuff from old mac. When I saw it would take 39 hours, I canceled the migration on the old mac, then on the new mac. Apparently it already transfered my account from the old Mac, but the password (that works on the old mac) doesn't work on the new mac so I'm locked out of my new Mac. Clearly it works on the old Mac..and I have the password hint, so I know I'm not typing it wrong. Something got messed up during the migration? Help, anyone?
Try this:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/

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Since it's a new machine, contact Apple's Support and let them deal with it.
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Yesterday, my friend gave me his old MacBook (Mac OS X Tiger)...
He said that he forgot his password and didn't know how to reset it...
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