Personal certificate for a PDA - Germany

I keep on getting stopped from surfing at internet cafes, while on Holiday as I do not have Personal certificate for my PDA.

So how do I get one - anyone know?

By the way
If I get one, can I use the same one for my notebook?

If it costs, does anyone know of any ways around it?

Detailed instructions would be helpful. !!!

Thanks in advance

You don't need one. Just check your WLAN settings.. Perhaps uncheck the box that says anything about certificates.
Certs. with WLAN are only usually used in large Corp. setups. Not your local Coffee shop WLANs..

Strange, I have used my PDA on my home wireless router works fine. I have used it in several Internet cafes in Lake Garda works fine, I have used it in france no problem.

It does not work in zooziez bar Munich, it asks for a Personal Certificate!
It did not work in the Hotel I was in Tenerife last week ( Personal Certificate ) !

I have not changed any of the settings on the device, there does not seem to be any settings on the device that relate to Personal Certificates. Maybe its called something different - does anybody know what else it could be called. ?

So I just do not know then it works in some places and not others, I pressumed (as it was asking for a certicates in some place that) , that cafe owner could setup to ask for one or not!
why else would the operation be different?

Or perhaps the places where you are getting the pop-up are using certs. If the are then you prob. won't be able to get one
as they are for that places devices only. When in doubt, ask somebody who works there. It could also be that those places
are using a wireless encryption scheme your device doesn't understand.

The setting your looking for on your device may mention something about 802.1x
It would also help a bit if you told us what "PDA" you are using. Who makes it?, Whats the model? What OS is it running?

[size="2">I did ask naturally, unfortunately the waiters and hotel staff had no idea on how there internet systems were setup !, and there was no IT guy from the Hotel just hanging around.

By the way, I did try to access the internet first, the PDA told me I needed a password, I got the password from the Hotel staff. I them tried to login again it was then that I was told that I needed a personal certificate.

Which sez to me that my PDA could talk on their encrypted network well enough, but I needed a Personal Certificate to get in the their network.

Sorry if I did not give you enough info in the first place - but the question remains the same where can I get hold of the Personal Certificate

Its more or less no name PDA running Windows Moblie 3, old I know, but seems to work well enough in most places.

Funny, I asked the guy behind the bar at Zoozies about it and right away he told me the exact settings I needed for my Nokia. I was a bit surprised that he knew. But then he quickly added that he has the same phone.
Don't ask me what setting it was or which guy. It was a few years ago.

Seems to have a NBWLAN ADAPTER 11B
SDIO 802.11g driver

There is by default in Windows moblie a folder called certificates , this is where I should put the Personal Certificate I guess if I can get one!

Just because the PDA can see the WLAN, doesn't mean it can fully understand and talk the
same encryption scheme as the Accesspoint. Again, check all your PDA settings and make sure
there is no option mentioning certificates or 802.11x checked/activated. Also have a look and see
what encryption schemes are supported. (WEP64/WEP128/AES/TKIP etc). Its possible that your device
is to old to understand the newer encryption schemes used by newer WLAN accesspoints.

Again, I have not come across a home/small office/public WLAN network that uses Certificates yet.
The use of which requires a backend server to issue/check/authenticate them. If for whatever strange
bizzare reason these places actually use certs, then the only place you can get certs to work with their
WLAN setup is from the the people who own/manage the network.

Seeing as others have posted that one of the places you have had tried (And failed), works just fine
for them without the need for certs, then its looking more like the problem is on your device/setup.

There never was a "3.0" version of Windows Mobile. Are you sure its not WinMo 2003 / 2003SE?
If it is, then it deff. doesn't support the newer encryption standards. My old Winmo2003 devices
never worked correctly with anything other than WEP encryption.