Wireless Linux at Lehigh University
I tried for a few days to get Lehigh’s 8021X authentication to work with my wireless setup, but the wireless network kept disassociating before the handshake finished. I asked around and a bunch of people said that Ashutosh’s instructions worked perfectly. I tried them verbatim, except without ndiswrapper (yuck!) The Intel iwlwifi driver has been working fine for other networks I’ve tried, so why should this be any different? Well, it is.
Along the way, I documented the output with iwlwifi. Long story short, 8021X isn’t working with iwlwifi, and you need to unload the module, and install the compat-wireless iwl3945 module. Just unpack the latest source and make; make install; make load
NetworkManager doesn’t have support (well, at least in the GUI) for PEAP authentication in 0.6.6, so you can’t use it instead of just manually specifying the network in a wpa_supplicant.conf. It looks like NetworkManager 0.7 will support PEAP, though, so it should be a lot easier to get wireless going at Lehigh in the future. In the next few days I’m going to setup a partition with Ubuntu Intrepid, install the compat-wireless modules, and try to get wireless working with The New. The kids on the Lehigh ACM IRC channel were making fun of NetworkManager, supposing it was pretty n00b, but idk. Issuing ifup and ifdown all day isn’t my idea of time well spent.
Punchline: Wireless works on Linux at Lehigh. If you’re using iwlwifi and having trouble, try switching to iwl3945 in compat-wireless and use Ashutosh’s instructions for everything else.
Tags: 8021X, ACM, compat-wireless, GNU/Linux, gui, IRC, iw3945, iwlwifi, Lehigh, ndiswrapper, network-manager, peap, wireless, wpa_supplicant