[Networking] liveangelic:
Hello everyone.

Following two days of googling and several hours spent doing so I am this close to selling my brand new Iconia A500 and getting an iPad - this is how desperate I am.

The problem is as follows: my school uses eduroam, a wifi using WPA-EAP PEAP MSCHAPv2 authentication protocols. I am using Acer Iconia A500 tablet sporting the original Honeycomb OS, rooted. When I try to connect to the network, it stucks on Connecting and eventually it gives up.

What I've done:

I've set the network settings to what they should be (PEAP, MSCHAPv2, my username and password, no certificates), didn't work.

I've downloaded server certificates (CESNET CA root, personal, 3), installed them and tried using those to no avail.

I've downloaded Wifi Advanced Configuration Editor and tried setting the proper setting in it, didn't help.

I've manually edited my wpa_supplicant.conf according to this post, didn't help.

I've downloaded and tried using Full Wifi (I think that's what it was called) which should allow me to set settings as well, didn't help.

I've done a factory reset.

I've checked for firmware updates.

I've contacted the IT guy that should be in charge of this network. His reply was that "His Desire Z connected simply by setting the PEAP, MSCHAPv2, name and pwd and that I should google around". Obviously, this didn't help at all.

I've read the topics offered to me by xda after typing in the title of this thread, nothing in them helped me.

I've installed terminal emulator, remounted system partition as r/w (took me several tries and programs) and copied over a new wpa_supplicant that I edited according to eduroam support site (disregard that you don't understand the language), along with the .pem certificate. Didn't work.

Right now I have no more ideas as to what should I do.

Apparently this is a problem some Android phones have, some don't. I would like to add I can connect on my laptop using Win XP without a problem and that my friend using iPad connects without the slightest hitch as well, so the network is most probably fine - I've even tested it in two different institutions (eduroam is a pan-university service, so each faculty has connection) - this to eliminate that it's a problem with the AP or somesuch.

One thing I noticed is, that when I set the Phase 2 authentication to MSCHAPv2in the wifi settings (regular Android interface) for this network (eduroam), click save and then reopen them again, the Phase 2 authentication is set to None. This was worrying, but using Wifi Advanced Configuration Editor I've checked that in THERE the eduroam network DOES have Phase 2 auth. set to MSCHAPv2. What is doesn't show is the password, but I assume this is for security reasons (doesn't even show the usual "dots" that replace the characters).

I would be extremely grateful to anyone who would help me solve this problem. Knowledge that I'll use the college wifi convinced me to buy the wifi only version of the device and not being able to use it (regardless of that I can use it on my home wifi and in caffees and such) is really a deal-breaker for me. Being a student and this the only student network spread through my whole country (several cities I visit) makes being unable to use it almost a good enough reason to sell the device - which I would hate to do, because other than this I've found no issue with it and am loving both the looks and the performance it offers.

Thank you all for reading and I'm looking forward to your wise advices.

liveangelic