[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone 3.0 ...

David Tarrant dct05r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 19 09:44:38 BST 2009


As mentioned though this currently only works within ECS as the  
peering between ECS and the rest of the eduroam network currently is  
not working.

Dave T

On 19 Jun 2009, at 09:41, JD Marsters wrote:

> The ECS eduroam password is the otherwise-mythical "wireless  
> password" which you can set at https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wireless- 
>   it is (and must be) different to your usual ECS password.
>
> As for getting central credentials to work, pass, no idea. You could  
> ask serviceline... ;-)
>
> JD
>
> On 19 Jun 2009, at 07:23, Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Although my experience with eduroam on other campuses is that it is  
>> almost impossible to log in to it, either using my soton.ac.uk or  
>> ecs.soton.ac.uk passwords.
>> I have no idea how to find out if it is a problem at our end.
>> --
>> Les
>>
>> On 18 Jun 2009, at 20:33, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>
>>> When I spoke to iSolutions about eduroam, they said there was not  
>>> much demand for it, as noone had registered, so it wasn't given a  
>>> supported status...
>>> Although they know you don't have to register...
>>> They seemed to think I was one of only two or three they knew about.
>>> So I suggested that they might like to find out how many people  
>>> were actually using it.
>>>
>>> On 18/06/2009 12:28, "Tim Chown" <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:07:10PM +0100, JD Marsters wrote:
>>>> Tim Chown wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:38:50AM +0100, Chris Andrews wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There's a new feature in the Wi-Fi prefs that I haven't tried  
>>>>>> yet but
>>>>>> should be great for iPod touch users in the University: auto- 
>>>>>> login to
>>>>>> hotspots. I'll give it a go next time I'm on campus...
>>>>>>
>>>>> This is there already if you use eduroam and 802.1x.
>>>>>
>>>> I find campus eduroam really very patchy indeed, which is a  
>>>> shame: some
>>>> other institutions I've been to have really good coverage. I  
>>>> think I'm
>>>> right in saying this is being addressed, though?
>>>
>>> Yes, it is.   And if you have such experiences report them to  
>>> serviceline :)
>>>
>>> Though one person in iSolutions seems violently opposed to 802.1x  
>>> due
>>> to it not (yet) being available to sufficent standard by default  
>>> in all
>>> OSes, which I see as a little short-sighted.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>



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