On 2010-08-29, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > according to several sources [1,2,3] 802.1x (WPA enterprise) is not > supported with native tools. > The wpa_supplicant package doesn't help either, since it doesn't > support WPA. > > Is there *any* other solution how I could get this to work on a laptop? > I'm even considering a qemu session with Linux inside and direct > access to a USB WLAN adapter, or a small portable access point that > supports 802.1x.
this last option seems the most straightforward, but you would specifically need something that can act as a client bridge (sometimes also called STA mode) and can authenticate with 802.1x in that mode (that's not a given, even if the device supports 802.1x in AP mode), so check fairly carefully. ubiquiti nanostation is about the smallest of the ones I know that have this option (I haven't tested it in this mode myself though), it's very small but is really meant as an outdoor CPE/AP and only has power-over-ethernet so may be a bit messy with cables... (don't look too closely at the trick needed to build a non-WDS client bridge, it's pretty disgusting ;)
