Android on Penn State’s Campus

April 7th, 2010 § 14

As a T-Mobile G1 owner, I have attempted multiple times to connect to Penn State’s campus-wide wifi. The benefits are easy to see; having high-speed internet is always a plus and it saves trouble connecting to a less stable 3G cell phone network. Finally, after a few different attempts (and some exactly the same), I found a working configuration to connect my G1 to Penn State’s wireless.

Here are the detailed steps to connect to Wireless 2.0 at Penn State. I’m unsure if the builtin VPN on the Android system supports connection to Penn State’s VPN based wireless. As of right now, Wireless 2.0 works great on the phone.

  1. Enable Wifi
  2. Select the psu network
  3. EAP method: TTLS
  4. Phase 2 authentication: PAP
  5. CA certificate: Leave on N/A
  6. Client certificate: Leave on N/A
  7. Private key password: enter access account password
  8. Identity: access account id
  9. Anonymous Identity: access account id
  10. Wireless password: access account password
  11. Click Connect

Enjoy!
If anyone can test this at different campuses or with different Android based phones, leave your feedback in the comments. I greatly appreciate it.

  • slingle

    Works fine at UP on a Motorola Droid (Verzion) as well. Thanks for posting this…stopped the need for a lot of trial and error.

  • MikeR

    Just got an HTC Droid Incredible. Thanks for your instructions, they work perfectly at UP!

  • http://twitter.com/jdbalogh John Balogh

    I did this on the Incredible last week, and just now found your page. Looks good. At your step 9, I entered a random string “abc123″ since that field is not used for authentication at either end.

    Cheers!

  • Bth5032

    what version of android are you talking about? These directions make no sense on cupcake which is what comes standard on G1s

  • http://seanmeadows.com/ Sean Meadows

    Thanks for the tip John!

  • http://seanmeadows.com/ Sean Meadows

    Bth5032, I'm sorry my steps don't match your G1 anymore. I rooted my phone a while ago and now cannot remember what version of android I was using when I made these directions. Hopefully these can still help people get started anyway.

  • Kev

    hey thanks for the post man. but how did you install wireless 2.0? i have a rooted g1 as well. trying to use the wifi on campus. thanks

  • http://seanmeadows.com/ Sean Meadows

    Kev, you don't need to “install” anything. If you are using a new-enough version of android (these advanced network securities may have been supported from the very beginning of android too) then android can already connect. It's just a matter of filling in the correct settings for the “psu” network.

  • Kev

    yea im trying to connect but I can't change any settings on the “psu” network. I only see the prompt for password. no prompt for the type of network and those settings you listed above.

  • Chris jackson

    Hey I work at the Penn State Harrisburg Campus at the IT Help Desk. I just wanted to let you know that our campus does not have wireless 2.0 yet, however we are supposed to be getting it in Spring 2011.

    As for the VPN we have been unsuccessful in getting it to work on any of the android phones.

  • Finky245

    This works. I am on PSU Berks Campus in Reading.

  • Zhhfu29

    does not work on CM7.0 @UP

  • Dan

    Works at UP campus with android 4.0 (ICS)

  • http://www.securew2.com/ EAP-TTLS

     

    The prevalence of wireless networks, specifically 802.11, has increased considerably over the past few years. While awareness of wireless security issues in general is improving, this technology brings with it a set of unique security risks that many organisations still fail to properly understand and address.

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