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Streak connecting to WPA2-Enterprise?
I am evaluating the Streak for use on our corporate network, but have been so far unable to connect to our wireless network. The network SSID is seen in the scan, and I can try to attach to it, but it fails. When I create the network manually, I have the following options for security: WEP, WPA Personal, WPA2 personal, WPA-EAP, and IEEE 802.1x. No option for WPA2-Enterprise, which is what we use.
Is this simply not an option on the Streak? Is it a limitation of Droid 1.6? After all the posts, I am hesitant to update the device (even if I could figure out how to do so - is there some app to do this or instructions?) unless I'm sure it would resolve the connectivity issue.
I googled for general info and found several posts that say it (maybe) can be done, but the instructions include "rooting" the phone, hacking the conf files, etc. I can probably figure out how to do this, but am not really interested in doing so for every user in our company that wants one of these - we need a relatively easy method.
Any advice?
Thanks!
Tom
Thanks. As I noted above, I can most likely do this (and probably will on this test unit I have), but it is simply not feasible (or really supportable) to do this kind of thing for the CIO and senior VPs who may want the device. Do you or someone know if Droid 2.x provides a better means to connect to WPA2-Ent?
delta70
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Posted September 8th, 2010 08:00
It looks like if you root it you can do it. I got this off of code.google.com
If you have root on your device, edit /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf and add whatever network you want; it will even show up in the list in the UI. This example works for me: network={ ssid="MyEmployer" key_mgmt=WPA-EAP identity="myusername" password="mypassword" } If your network is more complicated (tunnels, certificates, etc), see the wpa_supplicant project's default configuration file, which has many examples towards the bottom. http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=blob_plain;f=wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf