psp wireless connectivity at school

[givemeplain]

hey guys. my friend and i just went out and bought slim psps today at best buy. it came with the latest version of sony's firmware, so we got our friend to use his phat psp and make a pandora battery / magic memory stick. we downgraded both our psps to use custom firmware so we can run firmware and everything. it all works perfectly. however, i have some questions about wireless connectivity.

i go to college and so there is wireless access throughout campus / the dorms. however, to get onto the network you have to connect and then when you open up a browser you are redirected to a login page in which you enter your university id / password. you can't use the internet until you do this.

this is fine if i'm just using sony's built in web browser, because i can easily log on every time i want to connect. however, if i try to run psptube, it can't connect to youtube or anything because it doesn't know to redirect me to a login screen first.

i also fear that in games, i won't be able to connect wirelessly, because the game won't redirect me to a log in page for the wireless network.

i know people must have run into this problem before, is there any solution? thanks.

(adding a wep key in the network config wouldn't work ... since that's not the problem. there is no wep key for the network. its a separate login page).

thanks a ton!

[pokey8349]

not totally sure on this - maybe ask your network manager?

[LuC1Fr]

Yea, ask your network manager, Perhaps if you were to provide your Mac Address for your PSP. he might be able to add it to a list that wont need login information.

[The_Mechanix]

maybe or he/she will be like gah infant you and your little device(and use all his upper body to hit it to the floor) GAH now leave, hahaha. but yeah ask the manager.

[givemeplain]

hmn... anything dealing with a laptop i want to stay away from. we have wireless routers in our rooms so we can easily connect to those. we are more concerned about if we happen to be in campus, or in the lounge, or in class, or at work.

i went and registered the mac address at the STC on campus ... but they didn't really seem like they knew what they were doing and it still doesn't work.

because we don't have WEP access on our wireless network at school, and instead use blue socket login ... one of the guys there said it is impossible to get it to work. however, i've been looking around online and it seems like if you do register the mac address, you should be able to bypass any sort of login.

so ... i don't really konw what to do.

[vonvin]

This might let things other than the main browser use your connection, though it won't remove the login page:

Go to "Network Settings"->"Infrastructure mode"->Connection you are using and skip through to where it gives you:

Address Settings
->Easy
->Custom

Pick custom, and skip through the next three screens 'till you get:

Internet Browser
->Do Not Start
->Start

At which point you pick "start" so that whenever your PSP connects to that network it starts the built-in browser so you can log in, then carries on with whatever you opened once you close the browser.

[givemeplain]

i tried that before ... except that if you enable that, some programs won't even let you choose that internet connection. psptube won't let you choose any network on startup that has that option enabled .

[SportsGuy]

isnt there a bypasser for psp?

[vonvin]

Originally Posted by givemeplain

i tried that before ... except that if you enable that, some programs won't even let you choose that internet connection. psptube won't let you choose any network on startup that has that option enabled .

Ah well... It was worth a try.