I suggest Maemo5 should have support for EAP-LEAP. All S60 symbian phones have WPA2 EAP-LEAP, N900 should not be an exception. IF its main feature is on the internet usage of it. There should be EAP-LEAP! It is also very important for me, I hope to see it coming to the N900 soon.

Nokia said they are not adding support for WPA2-LEAP. See below:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3655

There is also a thread on this. Basically, N900 won't get the support.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37140

It a must have !! Arghhh !!

Its a security compromise AFAIK

Is there any alternatives?
What are the security compromise??

LEAP is fundamentally weak because it provides zero resistance to offline dictionary attacks. This is because it solely relies on MS-CHAPv2 (Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2) to protect the user credentials used for Wireless LAN authentication. MS-CHAPv2 is notoriously weak because it does not use a SALT in its NT hashes, uses a weak 2 byte DES key, and sends usernames in clear text. Because of this, offline dictionary and brute force attacks can be made several orders of magnitude more efficient by a very large (4 gigabytes) database of likely passwords with pre-calculated hashes. What was once thought to be a strong password just became pathetically weak and breakable within minutes.

PEAP, EAP-TTLS a.o.

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Hi,

I am a bit fed up with the answers on this issue.

I think it is quite easy to state that LEAP is insecure. Even though this is true (although with a strict password policy it is still difficult to hack) the reality is that as of today a lot of companies still use it...

So how can Nokia neglect this?

Unfortunately I am not wise enough to even think about programming a tool that could do this. No one out there who is capable of doing so? I cannot imagine this is a h/w issue, a driver should do, no?

Looks like there are enough people around who would welcome this feature...

- gaspode

I managed to connect to cisco leap
I've used wpa_supplicant

if you need here's the configuration file:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
# 1 - here, 0=driver, 2=driver++
ap_scan=1
#ctrl_interface_group=wheel
# may need to be 1
eapol_version=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
scan_ssid=1
mode=0
ssid="my-ssid"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
eap=LEAP
priority=2
auth_alg=LEAP
eapol_flags=0
identity="myusername"
password="mypass"
}