After much frustration and headbanging, our university’s LUG (Linux Users Group) got our university’s wifi working on Linux!

For a long time, we were able to authenticate our accounts in its Radius server using wpa_supplicant but just could not get the DHCP to release an IP to either dhclient or dhcpcd.

Well finally Roberto tried some instructions to update the ipw2200 drivers we use and the IEEE8021x drivers, as well as the firmware for our Centrino IPW2200 chipset.

Low and behold, I am typing this from my university’s wifi! This is so cool! Now we will just properly document the steps and all and perhaps modify the python GT-Wifi script we use in Ubuntu to support loading in through wpa_supplicant.

Either way, this kicks ass and just made my weekend. :)