[TouchPad General] eltee:
One of the corner cases it seems HP did not design into webOS is the ability to auto negotiate a full 802.11X connection. I managed to fix this though and my touchpad is happily connected to our office wi-fi and I figure anyone else trying this might want to check out the workaround I managed.

When I attempted to configure my touchpad to connect to an office/enterprise access point, I hit a brick wall where after completing all the required steps. It was able to use the current user credentials and get to the access point itself, but failed out with a "warning, no certificate is found for this network, please contact your network administrator" type of message.

Well of course no one in our IT group had ever so much as seen WebOS and ultimately I was left to fend for myself.

The goal here is to successfully transfer the (normally auto-retrieved) 802.11X signing certificate to the touchpad so that it can properly connect to your corporate/enterprise wireless network. On other devices such as android this seems to all be automated, but on the touchpad a significant amount of manual arm-wringing was needed to get it to all work together.

Step 1: Getting a root security certificate for your company.

There are a few guides out there for various operating systems/devices which you can use. Since my office machine was windows 7, thats what I have direct experience with.

Win7 Has a built in certificate management tool, but it is not listed in any of the menus. To get to it, enter certmgr.msc into the run panel and it will open up this handy dandy little tool.

Once you have that tool open, look into the root certificate authority folder and find your company's enterprise certificate. Hopefully it will be fairly easy to spot, i.e. if you work at company with domain X, you should see something like "X Enterprise CA".

Right click this certificate and select "All Tasks->Export" which will bring up a wizard with a few different certificate formats. After much trial and error, I found that the only one the touchpad seemed to natively understand was the "Base-64 encoded X.509". Finish the export with a file name and you can find it in your default user folder.

Step 2: Transfer this file to your touchpad

This one is a no brainer, just connect the touchpad via usb to your machine where you have this file, and drag it over.

Step 3: Importing the new certificate

All you need here is any webos file manager capable of opening a file. I used Gemini File Manager, but several free ones are also available and should work.

Open the file manager app on your touchpad, and run that certificate file. This will open a certificate manager tool on the touchpad and prompt you to trust this new certificate. Once you select to trust it, it will be brought into the system and available to use for 802.11x authentication.

Step 4: Connecting to the network

At this point all you should have to do is connect to the office wireless that was giving you trouble before, and now after giving all your authentication info it should successfully connect and offer full connectivity

It seems a little convoluted but it is awfully nice to have the touchpad be fully on-line and available around the office and you only have to do it the one time, successive connections should all just work.