Brian Long <brilong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Since I require EAP-FAST and xsupplicant does not appear to support it,
>I'll look further into wpa_supplicant. Does RHEL 4 not natively support
>the Cisco CB21AG (Atheros-based) PCMCIA card? It appears to require the
>MadWifi (ath) driver which I don't see in RHEL 4. It looks like AtRPMs
>has the driver / kernel module though.
If you're going to be using this on a Cisco Aironet based WLAN, be aware that
your wireless folk are saying Fast Secure Roaming requires a Cisco wireless card
(for the Cisco driver software). I haven't looked too closely, but I'm fairly
sure Cisco doesn't provide those drivers for Linux.
In any case, I'd be very interested to hear how you get on with this. Being in
the middle of rolling out a largeish WLAN — where we ran into the above problem
as well as having to back down to WPA from WPA2 since Microsoft and the wireless
chip vendor couldn't make the latter work reliably — I'm about to start testing
from a Linux laptop (will use Fedora FC5t2, not RHEL, but...).
Given we're using both machine and user authentication[0], both against
SecureACS backed by Active Directory, I'll be very impressed if the Linux box
handles it without excessive pain.
[0] - Machine auth to allow it to talk to the AP at all; user auth to allow
the user to communicate with the rest of the network.
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