[Year 12 IPM] Connecting to eduPaSS wireless network from a Linuxbox

[Laurie Savage]

I'm using the Gnome Network manager which has a nice GUI. I think it 
behaves like xsupplicant which I tried a year ago on another machine.

Bell, Cameron P wrote:
> You're not the only one trying!  :(
> We are playing with a utility - WPA Supplicant
> Have you looked at that?
> I really need to set aside more than 5 minutes to have a proper look at.
> At the moment, we have a bash (pun intended) every couple of days or so
> for a couple of minutes.
> Please let me know how you get on if you succeed.
> I'm trying SUSE 10.1 on the R51. Like you, lots of buzzing and whirring,
> but no connection.
> Cameron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Laurie Savage
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:11 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Connecting to eduPaSS wireless network from a
> Linuxbox
> 
> Has anybody had any luck trying to connect a linux box to eduPaSS 
> wireless networks. Here's what I have done which hasn't worked!
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu (Dapper, up to date) on my Thinkpad R52. One of our 
> techs created certificates for me and I downloaded them and converted 
> them to .pem files after much googling.
> 
> I have installed the network manager applet. Created a new wireless 
> network - WPA enterprise, TLS-EAP, and pointed it to the the certificate
> 
> and key PEM files. Various icons whirr and flash but phooey, no
> connection!
> 
> My wireless card is set up - I can access public wireless networks (cf 
> "Moodle in the pub")
> 
> Laurie
> 

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