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Originally Posted by crader

It works!!!

I got WPA-Enterprise working on my Kindle. It wasn't as easy as I thought and it still needs improvement, but at least it works. I explain what I found out.

There is a wpa_supplicant.conf on the Kindle but it seems that it is not useful for us because the configuration for wifi networks is not stored there. If you delete something there your wifi will stop working (thanks @NiLuJe for the config) and if you add something it has no effect.

Then there is the file wifid.conf. Thats the file where the Kindle writes it's known wifi networks. The problem is: it's encrypted. And even if we can decrypt the file, it might not be useful. I doubt that you can write all the information that is needed for an WPA-Enterprise network in there.

The last option is wpa_cli. It's a command line interface for wpa_supplicant. You can add and delete wifi networks in there, but it will not change the wifid.conf or wpa_supplicant.conf. The changes are reverted if you turn your wifi off or restart the Kindle. But if you add a new network in there, the Kindle will use it.

So that is what I do. I wrote a script which adds my wifi network to wpa_cli and I start it when I enter ~usbNetwork in my kindle. The best way to execute the script would be in the start script for the wifi connection, but I don't want to mess with the system files.

#!/bin/sh

id="`wpa_cli add_network | sed -n '2p'`"

exec="`wpa_cli << EOF
set_network $id ssid \"YOURSSID\"
set_network $id key_mgmt WPA-EAP
set_network $id group TKIP
set_network $id eap PEAP
set_network $id identity \"YOURLOGIN\"
set_network $id anonymous_identity \"YOURANONYMOUSID\"
set_network $id password \"YOURPASSWORD\"
set_network $id phase2 \"auth=none\"
enable_network $id
quit
EOF
`"
echo $exec

Change the script and save it in usbnet/bin/

Add the following line to usbnetwork

${USBNET_BINDIR}/script

Just add it before "# Load IP config"


That's all, now you should have a working WPA-Enterprise wifi connection.

I don't have this USBNET_BINDIR which is supposed to be at /mnt/usbnet, correct? But I do have usbnetwork feature. Where should I put this script? I mean "${USBNET_BINDIR}/script"