Hi,
> A colleague bought a Kindle Touch which arrived today, and we were
> pleasantly surprised to find that connecting to eduroam is now
> very easy (we had previously read that it should now work). I
> updated our wireless setup pages with new instructions here -
> http://wireless.le.ac.uk/bump/kindle.html I believe that the
> Kindle Fire should work too, although haven't seen one.
Kindle Fire still not release on UK shores. shouldnt be long now
> I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has had any success with
> the older Kindles at all. Also, if anyone is retiring their
older Kindles will work - you just need to connect into them with the
USB and edit wpa_supplicant files manually....which isnt good. its
not user friendly...and the user/pass are stored in clear text on the
device too.
> web-based captive portal login systems, and what you do when
> complaints arrive with the 'but I can't connect my <select out of
> touch with reality device here> to eduroam' argument.
we got rid of our captive portal a long time back. theres a finite limit
to the level of support you can give ...and the devices you can support.
in our case, 802.1X is mature enough technology for the vast majority of clients.
those 'weird' clients often have 3G options that users can use instead..
and the baseline was drawn with 802.1X capable devices - this relegates a
whole load of devices as obsolete..most of which only did 802.11b and
played nasty with other devices anyway (not looking at any particular
devices..Nintendo DS....)
alan
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