Received 02/20/2008 11:57

Newcastle university wireless has been 'upgraded'

It would appear that over the past week the I.T. boffins at the University of Newcastle have been busy "upgrading" the wireless network. It's been upgraded so well that I can no longer get signal in my office. Nice.

On the plus side they are enforcing WPA+EAP+PEAP for authentication now which is much stronger than the old WEP-TTLS-PAP setup. It does mean though that a new wpa_supplicant configuration block is needed.

I've documented the new manual config in the LOGIN Wiki [1]. The other LOGIN guys have also documented some of the GUI-based configuration tool settings, if you swing that way.

[1] - http://www.newcastlelug.org/wiki/