[OSX-Users] Re: eduroam

Paul André pa2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jul 8 10:52:15 BST 2011


Thanks everyone for the response (and ensuing discussion).

(in the end, it worked with ISS credentials once, but then flaky ever after. I blame Newcastle.)

-p

On 6 Jul 2011, at 14:27, David Tarrant wrote:

> Basically eduroam works everywhere but not in ECS where the current broadcasting access points are set up wrongly.
> 
> So while it is being broadcast in ECS, this IS NOT a typical eduroam network. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave T
> 
> 
> On 6 Jul 2011, at 13:44, Marcus Cobden wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 13:34, Vladimiro Sassone wrote:
>> 
>>> There must be more....
>>> Because I've got this:
>>> 
>>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:56, Marcus Cobden wrote:
>>>> * your ECS username at ecs.soton...
>>> 
>>> but not this:
>>> 
>>>> and your ECS wireless password
>>> 
>>> I use another password totally unrelated.
>> 
>> To make it absolutely explicit, your ECS Wireless password is configured here: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wireless/
>> It is/should be completely different from your regular ECS password due to how the implementation currently works.
>> 
>> Also make sure your 'outer identity' is set to something like anonymous at ecs.soton.ac.uk, the domain part is important so that other institutions can forward it appropriately.
>> 
>> (If you're using an @soton... username, you should have anonymous at soton... instead)
>> 
>> Marcus
> 
> 




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