Hello!

First I wanna start with the fact that I am a total smartphone noob and just got my n900 a few days ago.

I really need to have a working internet connection at my university since I spend 80% of my day there, so I would be really glad if you helped me.

I study at the universiry in Bonn (Germany) and you need to connect over a Cisco-VPN-Client. I already used the search function

-> http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...004#post337004

but unfortunately it didn't really help me a lot. I still don't know what to download, where to download and what to do at all...

Is anybody up for a step-by-step explanation or something like that?:\ I have no internet connection at all on my n900 atm, but ofc I can get files from my computer. I hope this is enough to set it up.

Thanks in advance.

you dont have a working internet connection...but you want to connect to your university's vpn? Me thinks you should take a little time to learn exactly what a vpn connection is and requires. This will help you ask more sensible questions in the forum and provide the information forum dwellers would need to even begin to try and help you. good luck.

The N900 has WIFI as standard. When in range of a network click on the clock area of the desktop.
One of the options on that menu is Internet connection
Selecting that option shows all the networks available and if they are protected or not.

If you know the SSID (network name) and the password just click on the network and it will ask for the password.

Simple

There's a how to for linux systems at the homepage of the university. Maybe you could try that?

I have a working vpn connection here - with my laptop. I still think it's a big difference to have a wlan vpn connection at my university.

@#3 I think you even know less than me.

Apparently UniBonn uses IPSEC as internet layer, so you should use vpnc and vpnc-gui to connect to your VPN.

From within vpnc-gui, you can import this profile file (to be downloaded from UniBonn IT services): http://www.hrz.uni-bonn.de/service/n...2f337ebacf1d7c

this should set-up all the required information, except username and password that you will have to provide.

disclaimer: I'm not at UniBonn, so I'm not aware of any peculiarities from there, but that's the way I did it in my institution and it worked.

As an addendum: UniBonn has two different VPN profiles if you connect via WLAN or if you connect from an external IP. Those two profiles point to two different VPN concentrator and have different group passwords.

I even seem to fail in the beginning with trying to install http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/vpnc-gui/#

It says like "Missing programm packets: maemo-select-menu-location"
(Fehlende Programmpakete: ...)

I could install openvpn http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/openvpn/
but that didnt help me much