Wireless at University Zuyd

The university I study at offers wireless access. Almost everything at my University is based on Microsoft (and Cisco) products however, and the wireless network is no different. It is based on IEEE 802.1x authentication with EAP-TLS, with a Microsoft CA web interface as the only way to get a certificate. Along with wired network access restricted to University PC’s everywhere, this made it rather difficult for me to get an internet connection with Ubuntu.

The guy who gets to do all the certificate installation support on Windows laptops told me several people had tried, but none succeeded thus far. I hope they’re reading Planet Ubuntu NL now! I’ve spent a couple of days reading up on all this madness and got it to work. It’s no elegant solution, but hopefully involved applications will improve in the future. IEEE 802.1x support in NetworkManager would be great, and I also like the certificate integration in Seahorse that was mentioned on the desktop-devel list.

So anyways, I wrote up a document (in dutch) for those interested: http://stephan.kochen.nl/proj/hszwifi/
If something seems not right in there, see if you can catch me on site. :p
(I might touch it up with screenshots tomorrow.)

RAOPSink

I’ve had some problems with the wireless signal at home as well. We set the Airport Expresses to WDS and turned of AirTunes to try to improve it. This also means I no longer have an Airport Express available to test RAOPSink on.

Besides that, I’ve been delaying the thing over and over. I’m just going to officially stay I’m no longer working on it. Sorry, guys!