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Created July 30, 2018 16:15
How to connect a Raspberry Pi to a WPA2 Enterprise Network

How to connect a Raspberry Pi to a WPA2 Enterprise Network

tags: Auburn, Auburn University, WPA2, WPA2 Enterprise

Auburn University is gracious enough to provide instructions to Ubuntu users on how to connect their hosts to the Auburn University WiFi Network.

Many Universities use WPA2 Enterprise authentication on their networks. This allow you to track WHO is connected where and have granular control over who's able to access the WiFi network.

For tinkerers and experimenters with Raspberry Pi, Particle Photon, and other embedded systems, this poses a problem because many simplier IoT devices do not support WPA2 Enterprise natively or not without some hassle.

Raspbian Jesse and earlier will display a WPA2 Enterprise network from its dropdown list, but it will be greyed out. The workaround is to manually connect to it: