T-Mobile Hotspots, WPA and unsupported devices.

I recently obtained a Nokia E61 "smartphone" with WiFi and have been
trying to learn how to get the most out of it. I would like to
configure it to work with T-Mobile Hotspots using their WPA encryption
settings.

What T-Mobile has done to implement WPA is kind of tricky. Each
hotspot has two SSIDs: there is the broadcast one "tmobile" and the
hidden one "tmobile1x". The "tmobile1x" SSID is WPA encrypted. One
problem is that T-Mobile only supports WPA when the customer uses
their Windows-based connection manager program. This leaves out
customers who are not using Windows. I've been Googling and have found
some users of Mac, Linux and WPA Supplicant have been getting T-
Mobile's WPA to work on their machines.

Here's a general article about it.
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtar...017771,00.html

Here's an article about setting up WPA Supplicant to connect.
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hos...er/011233.html

Here's an article about setting up your Mac to connect.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...71113152931595

The problems are:
1. Both the E61 and WPA are pretty new to me and
2. The WPA options on the e61 don't excatly match what's in those
articles.

I don't know enough to be able to translate that information into
settings for the e61. I e-mailed HotSpot technical assistance but have
not received a response. I'm willing to bet, when they do respond,
they won't tell me what I want to know.

On the E61 when you select "WLAN security mode" = "WPA/WPA2" (The
other choices are "Open", "WEP" & "802.1x") you get a host of other
settings. If you pick "WPA mode" = "EAP" you can allow or disallow
TKIP and enter another menu for "EAP plug-in settings. That menu has
six sub menus (EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, EAP-TLS, EAP-PEAP, EAP-TTLS & EAP-
LEAP), each of which can be enabled or disabled, reordered, and have
individual settings changed. Of them, only EAP-LEAP seems to use a
username and password.

The 802.1x settings are the same as for WPA except that there is no
setting to allow/disallow TKIP.

The two how-to articles above both call for "TTLS-PAP" or just "PAP",
neither of which appears on the E61 menus.

Several folks have tried combinations of EAP-TTLS and EAP-LEAP on the
E61 without success. The EAP-TTLS settings ask for "certificates" and
"realms" neither of which seem to be set in the two articles above.

Several of us on HowardForums.com have been poking at this without
much luck. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Donald Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> The two how-to articles above both call for "TTLS-PAP" or just "PAP",
> neither of which appears on the E61 menus.
>
<http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showpost.php?p=306425&postcount=34>
<http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98362&page=1>
>
> Donald Newcomb
> DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net

On Dec 29, 8:29*am, LR <l...@privacy.net> wrote:
> d_r_newc...@my-deja.com wrote:
> > The two how-to articles above both call for "TTLS-PAP" or just "PAP",
> > neither of which appears on the E61 menus.
>
> <http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showpost.php?p=306425&postcou....>
> <http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98362&page=1>
>

Cripes! No PAP on Nokia phones! *&6!~><

Donald Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net