Hey guys
not sure if anybody else is facing this problem but the native wifi utility on the android seems to be under-developed. It doesn't support enterprise encryption's like WPA-Enterprise, EAP-FAST, etc.
Also, I've noticed it only connects to my home SSID when it's in broadcast beacon mode meaning the SSID is seen by all. I don't want to open it up this way. Does anybody know of a 3rd party application with better capabilities for connecting to wifi networks?
Thanks!
Hidden SSID issue
Hi,
i do have same issue as you. I found a solution, see http://en.androidwiki.com/wiki/Enabling_Hidden_SSID_Hack. Unfortunately this requires to create an apk. This is bit out of my skills.
If you would know anybody who can create a program and share it with others, i will appreciate if you will let me know.
Search the forums. There was a post about editing your wpa_supplicant.
Folks
someone already did and it works fine
http://www.cyrket.com/package/jp.sourceforge.soopy.hidden.ssid.enabler
After you turn on your wireless, open this application and type in the name of the hidden ssid and click enable. Then be patient - it can take upto a full minute to connect to the hidden ssid
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OK, I totally find the WiFi Client for the MDA Vario totally pathetic. Is it possible for me to get rid of it and use the Odyssey Client (can be found HERE)?
What exactly do you find worthless about the default client, so as I know before clicking on a link that is more than likely a virus.
1. No AES support
2. No LEAP Authentication from same config screen for setting up a Wireless connection.
3. No support for feedback (catch all errors/log status)
Need I say more.
Also, virus? Not bloody likely - hover over the link and you can see that it goes here
http://download.juniper.net/software/aaa_802/public/oac/451/Odyssey Client for Windows Mobile.exe
Juniper.net makes Odysses Client (also Used for the Dell Axim WiFi Client.)
as if I post a link to a virus . . . .
How is it totally useless ?
When i'm at home it connects to my home network, when i'm at work... it connects there. No surprises so far.
It's fit for the job it's intended to do.
Oh, if you're installing Odyssey... don't lose your phone...
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=3942
How silly of me to be paranoid when someone posts a link to an exe file that is just named with spaces from someone called warez!
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gazzrenn said:
How is it totally useless ?
When i'm at home it connects to my home network, when i'm at work... it connects there. No surprises so far.
It's fit the job it's intended to do.
Oh, if you're installing Odyssey... don't lose your phone...
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=3942
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I said pathetic not useless, however, what I mean is: I can connect at home but not at work. Also, I do not connect at home by original design - I had to change my Wireless config of my router to match what the default Wifi Client on my PDA will accept (aka TKIP vs AES which I'd prefer)
Also, at work, we use LEAP authentication (on one SSID) and AES (on one of another SSID) - there isn't anyway for me to connect to any of my Wireless networks at work even though I am privy to all of the information to do so.
Sorry if I sound a bit frustrated (I am)
Any help would be appreciated.
How silly of me to be paranoid when someone posts a link to an exe file that is just named with spaces from someone called warez!
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Well that much I can understand - but checking out the root domain before making assumptions would have clarified that quickly enough.
There is a LEAP is a tab in the Wireless Network settings?
WarezAppz said:
I said pathetic not useless, however, what I mean is: I can connect at home but not at work. Also, I do not connect at home by original design - I had to change my Wireless config of my router to match what the default Wifi Client on my PDA will accept (aka TKIP vs AES which I'd prefer)
Also, at work, we use LEAP authentication (on one SSID) and AES (on one of another SSID) - there isn't anyway for me to connect to any of my Wireless networks at work even though I am privy to all of the information to do so.
Sorry if I sound a bit frustrated (I am)
Any help would be appreciated.
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Thats a much better desctiption of why you need a different client.
There is a LEAP is a tab in the Wireless Network settings?
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Yeah there is - The problem is: That tab is on the Wireless LAN page - the 'Configure Wireless Networks' 802.1x page only gives 2 options for eap type PEAP, Smart Card or Certificate vs LEAP ergo I can not connect. Maybe I am just doing something wrong (I'd love for that to be the case). I admit I am rather limited when dealing with this client and trying to specifically set up a WiFi Connection. That is another reason why I find the default client less-than-desirable - not enough support documentation (either in the manual or via help file attached to the client itself)
WarezAppz said:
Yeah there is - The problem is: That tab is on the Wireless LAN page - the 'Configure Wireless Networks' 802.1x page only gives 2 options for eap type PEAP, Smart Card or Certificate vs LEAP ergo I can not connect. Maybe I am just doing something wrong (I'd love for that to be the case). I admit I am rather limited when dealing with this client and trying to specifically set up a WiFi Connection. That is another reason why I find the default client less-than-desirable - not enough support documentation (either in the manual or via help file attached to the client itself)
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I am having the same problem. I downloaded the trial of Odyssey from Juniper but it won't enable. Don't bother with that LEAP tab in the default wifi client, it won't work. I spent several days trying everything in the book. I have Odyssey on my Axim x50v and it works like a charm connecting to our cisco wireless.
Please post if you find an answer.
As for the gazzrenn, you should tell the IT people at your work that they need to change their wireless settings if you can connect with the windows client.
Hi all,
I am writing an app in which both the WiFi connection and GPRS connection are available for use at the same time. I am working on a WinMobile 6 HTC Wizard in USA on T-Mobile network.
When I have both connections open, I am able to access the WiFi but not the GPRS (faster connection I imagine). Does anybody have any ideas on how I could leverage using both connections, binding sockets on each?
Any help in this area is greatly appreciated. I don't know much about the CommManager in WinMobile, but if anybody knows any way for me to *possibly* be able to use both connections, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
Nick
As far asa I know, WM defaults to the strongest connection available, but some apps are very stubborn about using the WiFI unless it's the only thing available. I'm not a PPC developer, so I'm sorry I can't offer any more insight, but there should be no reason that you couldn' code your app to use both of the connections.
i dont think that is even possible in my opinion but that would drain the battery fast.
I'm definitely wrong by calling it the CommManager, thats just the user interface on WM to select which communications you want open. I meant ConnManager, which is the Connection Manager, which I've learned about here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb416435.aspx
I do think its possible, but unclear how to access the Connection Manager API. If anyone has any background with programming using the Connection Manager API, I'd greatly appreciate some help in the form of example source code. Also, if anyone has ported a C++ library to C# before, I could use some assistance with that. The Connection Manager API is in the connmgr.h file which I've attached here, and I want to be able to use it in C#. I wish to use this on the mobile device and don't know exactly the best way to go about doing this.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick
Hello all,
is there any way I could set my Touch Diamond to connect to my university VPN only when it is connected to its wifi network. As in I dont want to connect to the VPN on my home or any public access point!
Thanks!
need some help guys
VPN
I've been trying to figure something better out myself. It's like 150 steps to connect to the VPN. I found this:
Create a text file called something like Connections.lnk and place the following in it:
(21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,19)
This will get you to the connections page anyway.
Another way to get there seems to be to shortcut to \Windows\remnet.exe (just found that method.)
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, and was wondering if anyone can help me out. I have an Acer S200, and due to restrictions at work, we need to disable internet access from our mobile devices.
I have read various posts that state that this can be achieved by disabling wifi access by altering the registry keys, however none of the methods that i have come accross seem to apply to my Acer S200 mobile 6.5.
Sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know how i can do this?
Thanks in advance everyone.
alan
What are you talking about? Disable wifi? Why do you start it at the first place?
Internet access on mobiles can be done by active synch, data connection, wifi. It 's up to you to disable them by comm manager and active synch.
Maybe I get you wrong. What exactly do you need to stop?
Hi fresco,
thanks for the reply. Well, the organisation wants to prevent the devices from having the ability to connect to the internet.
I understand that there may not be a complete solution, but at the very least I would definitely like to disable wifi completely, since this is what I've read others have done. The devices do not have data connection plans, hence this option isn't a problem.
Apparently I can disable the wifi by altering the registry keys? Any ideas anyone?
Thanks.
hiya...
any ideas guys?
can anyone direct me to anything that could be remotely useful to the above?
Thanks
Hi alan,
let me get this straight.You work at an organization that has unencrypted wifi access
but doesn`t want it`s employees using it?
If your company`s wi-fi network gives access to the internet to anyone that connects to it why doesn`t the IT manager set a password to the network or enable mac filtering (prevents unauthorized devices-mac addresses from connecting to the network)?
I don`t know how you would disable the wifi chip from the registry
but if i were you i would buy a second phone for work use only.
SKTools
Try SKTools maybe there is a solution in the app.
You can disable the WiFi in registry:
Go to "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\State\Hardware]" and change the WiFi string to 0.
In the Comm. Manager the WiFI is disappeared and you are not able to connect.
thanks brainmaster.
the method that you suggested only removes the wifi display from comm manager, however that can easily be bypassed using the windows menu, to open wifi.
thanks...
then delete that one from the windows menu from Device > Windows > Start Menu
The problem is:
I can't coonect to my corporate LAN. LAN settings: WPA, EAP, PEAP/MSCHAPV2.
I have my account in domain with login and pass, but device can't connect yo LAN.
Could anybady halp?
(sorry for my english... :-( )
Not sure if it's completely related to this
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1386
but it seems like Android cannot connect to EAP extension officially without actual hacking. Unfortunately I don't have a Tab yet, and it's going to be my first Android device, so not much I can help you with. Hopefully someone can help u here from the board! Maybe asking in the Android section of XDA too. Good luck!
I regularly use EAP-TTLS/PAP on my Nexus One, so its not a general Android issue. I never came across PEAP, so there could be bugs... You need to talk to your network administrator to log your login attempts if you want to debug this.
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You need to talk to your network administrator to log your login attempts if you want to debug this.
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I've done that already He told that is missed security type...
Many thanks to dliao. I think his tip is very usefull for me.
Have u tried using the wifi advance configuration software from marketplace?
My Tab problem is with certain profiles created in the Tab and with some wifi routers, the tab will reboot once i switch on the tab wifi. I think its hardware compatibility issue but so far have not heard anyone having this prob here
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Unfortunatly the most popular WiFi Editor Pro is not avalable for my region. But I've find Full WiFi with same functionality. It doesn't work. I catch that Galaxy Tab keep wifi settings not in wpa_supplicant.conf as other devices but in /data/wifi/bcm_supp.conf...
I tried modify it but without success...