My x61t won't accept school's wireless certificate!

Well, basically my college has two wireless networks. One, which I have to use now, is much slower and somewhat limited and open to any "guest" on campus. The other is for students and requires everyone to install a wireless "certificate."

But....and the reason I'm posting this here is that the neither I nor the IT department could get the certificate installed on my x61 nor on ANY OTHER thinkpad, while all other brands worked fine. And I can say that I had an m1330 for a few days and the cert. installed just fine.

My main problem is that while I'm very knowledgeable w/ software/hardware, I have had dial-up all my life becuase of location so I know nothing about anything broadband/network/wifi related.


The certificate is supposed to be installed under the "trusted roots" thing, but no matter how you try to go about installing it, it will never show up. What IBM software is causing the problem? Anyone heard of this issue?

 

Have you tried doing it on a clean OS install without any Lenovo utilities?

 

No, I haven't. That was my intention of course, but I have the built in Verizon Ev-DO WWAN, and I had read in a couple of places that when you do a custom install that the WWAN hardware would not be installed and that right now it was impossible to get that working again, so that pushed me away. If I am wrong about this please tell me, because that was actually another issue I have with the machine.

 

Here's a common fix: