[Durham] Question about WPA Enterprise networking

[david+lists+durhamlog at asguard.org.uk]

that should of course be
auto wlan0
...

and you will ned to set the wpa-password.

Maybe trying to send this response from the train wasn't the best idea.

On Friday 19 Jun 2015 14:39:10 david+lists+durhamlog at asguard.org.uk wrote:
> In Debian you can set this stuff up in /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> Something like
> 
> auth wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhc
> 	wpa-ssid network-name
> 	wpa-identity user-name
> 	wpa-password
> 
> 
> you will probably need one account per machine as usually radius would be
> configured to only allow one connection per user.
> 
> you may need to specify the wpa-key-mgmt optoin to match your network.
> 
> You can read the docs for this by running
> zless /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz
> 
> Please let us know what you end up using.
> 
> HTH David.
> 
> On Friday 19 Jun 2015 14:20:15 Barry Titterton wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I would like to ask a question, on behalf of a Lubuntu user, about
> > getting linux machines to work on a WPA Enterprise network. The user,
> > called Marc, is from Canada. He has persuaded his local school to try
> > Lubuntu on some old XP machines rather than throw them away. The
> > machines connect to the school's network via WPA Enterprise wi-fi, and
> > are general class room machines so they can be used by any student. Can
> > someone explain, in simple terms, how he would configure Lubuntu to
> > authenticate the machines themselves on the network rather than per user?
> > 
> > Marc has posted a number of questions on the Lubuntu mailing list but
> > without getting a definitive answer.
> > 
> > The rest of the school runs on Windows, as you would expect. The
> > school's IT manager is a Windows only person who knows nothing about
> > linux. In fact the IT manager is hostile to linux machines on his system
> > and views them as a security risk.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Barry T
> > 
> > 
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