Actually, what we need is some sort of software that will allow us to configure it to our EAP-PEAP authentication standard, distribute it, and require log-in creditentials through active directory.
We are a small liberal arts college and more and more students are starting to utilize laptop computers around campus. As more students bring computers, we have to pay more for licenses. With 2000+ student licenses and another 600+ college licenses, it is becoming prohibitive to maintain it.
Therefore, we're looking for something open source or freeware to substitue, at least for the student machines.
Linux only. No Windoze. Mac OS/X support is apparently limited.
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Xsupplicant is designed to work with Linux. Early versions of xsupplicant also supported *BSD and Mac OS X, but this support was pulled out when xsupplicant was rewritten.
Mac OS X support was pulled because Apple is now providing a built-in supplicant as of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). *BSD support was initially removed largely due to a lack of active *BSD development. Some *BSD code does remain, however, and we encourage any *BSD developers out there to test xsupplicant and submit patches or file bug reports to improve *BSD support. There has been talk of adding Mac OS X support back into xsupplicant, because Apple's client only works with their own Airport cards. Xsupplicant could potentially fill the gap left by Apple for those users that wish to use 3rd party cards, or wireless standards not supported by Apple, such as 802.11a, but such support would require 3rd party APIs to properly handle Dynamic WEP.
: 1.3. Supplicant versus Authenticator : : The Open1x project contains source code for both the "Supplicant" and : "Authenticator" pieces of the 802.1X standard. This document will only : focus on the Open1x Supplicant (xsupplicant), as the Authenticator : isn't being actively worked on at this point in time.
The OP should be able to use the Authentication Server on a Linux box.
Yes, and there is 802.1x Windows drivers (supplicant) as of W2K.
This has changed. Broadcom cards work with OS X. They should work with OS X's 802.1x driver too.
And BTW, Orangeware has recently released a driver that supports 802.11a on OS X (Panther) and later with PC Cards with Atheros chip sets. I'm using it now. Works quite well. Only support for WEP though.
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