[ltp] WIFI conf. Xsupplicant? (Marco Ghirlanda)

[Mario Limonciello]

Marco Ghirlanda wrote:

> Hi everybody on the list!
> First post from the first Linux Thinkpad of my life.
>
> I'm running Debian Sarge on a T42 low budget and trying to configure
> my integrated wifi driver, but I didn't understand even where to start.
>
> Could someone just point me in the right direction?
> I will make all necessary research on this topic, If I can.
>
> I need to authenticate myself on a Windoze network like this:
>
> - open authentication, WEP with dinamic key
> - network access 802.1X
> - Auth PEAP (no validation of server certificate)
> - credential EAP-MSCHAP v2
>
> How would you rate this as difficult from 1 to 10?
> Impossible?
>
> Should I use Xsupplicant?
>
> Thanks in advance and big ciao from Turin, Italy.
>
> Marco Ghirlanda
> Director of Opensourcelab.it and Mediainlinux.org
>
> p.s. this list rocks! Highly informative!
>
>
>
I Do something very similar with my employer using X supplicant.  We
already have a plethora of linux users here though.  So lets just say
many people had howto's on there personal internal web sites.  It was
probably a 6 (10 being hardest).