[Sugar-devel] [PATCH v2][sucrose-0.94][RFC] Add capability to connect to WPA/WPA2-Enterprise networks

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 11 December 2011 00:42, Anish Mangal <anish at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 17:30, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Hi Anish,
>>
>> thanks for the patch.
>>
>>
>> On 09/12/11 12:08, Anish Mangal wrote:
>>> This feature is originally being developed for f14/0.94.1 based dx3
>>> based on a request from OLPC-Australia. At this moment, I'd consider
>>> trying to upstream this for the sucrose-0.94 branch.
>>
>>
>> Interesting, so the Australian deployment is using enterprise WPA/WPA2 in
>> their deployment? I thought that would be in use mostly in the corporate
>> world. For background info maybe you can illustrate the usage a bit with
>> this real world example.
>>
>
> Yes, this is the feedback I received from Jerry Vonau and Sridhar
> (OLPC-au). I've cc'ed them to reply to this.


Yes, most Australian state schools have WPA Enterprise networks set up
by their respective Department of Education. A lot have hidden SSIDs
as well, although this seems to be changing.

Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia