Today I found the reason why I'm propably gonna sell my E61i, and propably can't buy any Nokia Smartphone (Problem seems to be on all Nokia Symbian devices, including N95 and E90). Although its advertised as supporting 802.1x Wireless Lan authentication, it doesn't support PAP authentication with EAP-TTLS standard.
This standard is used for the eduroam project ( eduroam.org )at most european and australian unversities for WLAN authentication. Reading the Nokia forum they plan support for END of 2008. Is this a bad joke. I started a petition to pressure Nokia to do something faster, but nobody wants to sign it :icon13: ( petitiononline.com/NokiaPAP/petition.html ). This is really a huge problem as unencrypted or WEP encrypted WLAN are going to be shutdown for security reasons.
So any idea what else could be done? Is it possible to implement a client in software on the Symbian Platform?
aramelus84 wrote:This standard is used for the eduroam project ( eduroam.org )at most european and australian unversities for WLAN authentication. Reading the Nokia forum they plan support for END of 2008. Is this a bad joke. I started a petition to pressure Nokia to do something faster, but nobody wants to sign it :icon13: ( petitiononline.com/NokiaPAP/petition.html ). This is really a huge problem as unencrypted or WEP encrypted WLAN are going to be shutdown for security reasons.
So any idea what else could be done? Is it possible to implement a client in software on the Symbian Platform?
I don't think there's any way to get this working by writing a third party add-on. Regarding your petition, I have no experience in them and I don't know enough about wifi authentication to know if the lack of PAP authentication is such a big problem but here are a few rather common-sense remarks:
- Nobody knows what "EAP-TTLS PAP authentication" is. Hence nobody will even bother to read a petition that's about "EAP-TTLS PAP authentication". Give your petition a more sensible name that your average student will understand.
- Spell check your text. As far as I know, MOSR is not an english word.
- I read a lot of blogs and web sites about symbian smartphones and was until last month working in a large UK university. Yet, I had never heard about your petition until today. Maybe you've not spread the word in the right places.
I'm not sure that your petition would be worth the effort though. Have you tried to raise the issue on the Nokia support forum, with the S60.com blog writers and with some of the influencial symbian blogs around? That might work better than a lonely petition.