WiFi – Joining a Raspberry Pi Running Raspbian Linux to either WSU ResNet or WSU Wireless
Background
- For when a user with a Raspberry Pi microcomputer running the Rasbpian Linux OS is trying to get onto WSU ResNet or WSU Wireless
Issue/Problem
- Getting the Raspian Linux OS to successfully join WSU ResNet or WSU Wireless sometimes takes special steps to accomplish. See Solution Below.
Solution
FOR RESNET:
The easiest thing to do would probably be to try to join it to the ResNet Guest Wireless.
You can try to get it to connect directly to the ResNet Guest network and go through the Registration page at the frontend there as mentioned here:
https://confluence.esg.wsu.edu/display/ASDD/WSU+ResNet+Guest+-+ClearPass
OR, You get the MAC Address of the Wireless Network Card, go online to https://wireless.housing.wsu.edu/guest , login with your Network ID and Password, then Register the Device MAC Address there first. After that you should be able to join it to the ResNet Guest Wireless without logging in.
FOR EITHER WSU WIRELESS OR RESNET:
Attempting to join the regular ResNet Wireless is a bit harder as you have to know a lot about how to set it up through Raspbian.
I had one other student Successfully pull that off, he was joining WSU Wireless, but the same settings (other than changing the SSID Name) should also work for WSU ResNet, since it uses the same type of security.
NOTE: He had to manually edit some network config files in Raspbian to make this work.
Here is what he sent me when he got it working:
"I got it working.
I edited the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, adding
network={
ssid="WSU Wireless"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=PEAP
identity="UserName"
password="Password"
disabled=0
}
adding in my wsu username and password as applicable.The disabled=0 seems to be key. By default it seems to put this number to 1 if not set manually. The certificates appear unnecessary.
I also edited /etc/network/interfaces, to look like
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
as suggested here, https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/22875/connecting-to-wpa2-enterprise-wifi-network#24670
I hope this helps."