Connecting to a WIFI needing username and password

[Raluca]

Good afternoon, 

I am trying to solve the exercises from the Wifi Fundamentals course. This requires connecting for a wifi, but as this work is for my Thesis, I have to connect to the University`s wifi eduroam. 

But to connect to eduroam, you should do it with your credientials, so each student have to use their username that is being given and a password that they also use for connecting to the University`s platform. 

My question is, how could I connect with my device to this wifi? What can I write in the terminal and also in the code to succesfully connect? 

I tried with using "eduroam" as SSID and for the PSK I tried the following formats: 

• "username: xxxxxx" "password: yyyyyyy" 
• "password: yyyyyyy" 
• "username: xxxxxx, password: yyyyyyy" 
• "{username: xxxxxx, password: yyyyyyy}" 
• "username=> xxxxxx" "password=> yyyyyyy"

I guess I just don`t know the format.

Thank you and have a productive day!

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi, 

The format is decided by the application running your device. 

From your previous case, I see you are going through the Wi-Fi Fundamentals course. If you are using the wifi samples of https://academy.nordicsemi.com/, the command for connecting to a Wi-Fi network is

wifi_cred add "<your_network_SSID>" WPA2-PSK "<your_network_password>"

See https://academy.nordicsemi.com/courses/wi-fi-fundamentals/lessons/lesson-2-wifi-fundamentals/topic/lesson-2-exercise-2-2/  

Regards,
Amanda H.

[Raluca]

Hi, Amanda,

Thank you for your reply! I could connect to a wifi network that had WPA2-PSK, but my University`s wifi has EAP security. I was wondering if the nRF7002 supports EAP, and if yes, then could you please help me the command to do so? I have the SSID, which is "eduroam" but, to be able to connect, I need to insert my username and a password so, in this case, I am not sure which is the format. 

Kind regards, 

Raluca

[Amanda Hsieh]

Do you mean the Enterprise Security (EAP-TLS)? If so, nRF7002 doesn't support enterprise security yet.

[Raluca]

Hey, Amanda! Is this what you mean? I searched for the Security type and Encryption of the wifi of the University and it is this one. 

[Echo Xue]

Hi Amanda,

Do you have idea when would nRF7002 support WPA Enterprise security?

Best Regards.

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi, 

We cannot discuss any plan/schedule/roadmap on the Devzone.  

Please contact your Regional Sales Manager (RSM) for the feature support. If you don't have RSM's information, please fill out the form of Sales related questions.  

-Amanda H.

[hmojito]

I really have difficulties to understand why you cannot, when your official documentation is pointing that the chip is supporting WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise security...
And it's a technical issue that the feature you say is supported doesn't actually work. So please give to the community a real answer about how to solve it and to be in accordance to your main product page brief:
https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/nRF7002 : 

• WPA3 Personal and Enterprise

[hmojito]

And to add more info see what kind of information we can get from RSM: 
Me: 
Another question, do you have knowledge about the possibility to use WPA2-Enterprise (especially EAP-TLS) security mode with this module? Nordic told me few months ago that this feature was in development but I can't find any information.
RSM:
It supports WPA3, which is better than WPA2, do you want to test the samples?

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi, 

hmojito said:

I really have difficulties to understand why you cannot, when your official documentation is pointing that the chip is supporting WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise security...

Please see my colleague's explanation in this post. 

hmojito said:

Another question, do you have knowledge about the possibility to use WPA2-Enterprise (especially EAP-TLS) security mode with this module? Nordic told me few months ago that this feature was in development but I can't find any information.

Support for WPA2 and WPA3 Enterprise mode is currently not available. Please get in touch with your RSM for the timeline. 

-Amanda H.