hi, why go backwards when you have the right wireless technology in place? you need to look at the windows client end of things. I'd suggest looking at automating the setup..the best thing would be to have another wireless SSID (eg 'setup for XYZ' - where XYZ is your current SSID) - and have that as an open wifi that can only (ONLY!) access one single IP on which lives a web server with auto setup tools - eg .NET or VBS for MS windows, XML for MAC and even a setup file for iPhone/iPod touch etc. (this would have to be a webredirect so as soon as they associate, any DNS or port 80/8080/3128 etc get sent to the index page.) - another web delivery option is to prepackage eg open1x (open1x.sf.net) or SecureW2 (another supplicant) and get them to use that....
as you did note, the problem is with the client setup.. thats the current difficulty with 802.1X. alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
