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Wired 802.1x with piaware

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#1

Hello! I’m struggling (3 hours+) to get my piaware image to access a wpa_supplicant configuration for wired 802.1x authentication on boot.

I have been trying to follow these directions:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=285379&p=1727142#p1727142

but am being “foiled” by the piaware network configuration script that seems to overwrite EVERYTHING on boot time. I have my wpa_supplicant.conf configured correctly, and I can manually invoke it on an SSH session via:

sudo wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -i eth0

honestly at this point i’d be happy to just manually run this command at boot time to. any ideas?

#3

Thank you Lawrence, but this does not appear to be the case. My stock piaware install image does indeed have the wpa_supplicant installed, and works just fine if I invoke it manually per my post. i just need to configure it to start at boot; that is the nature of my question.

pi@piaware:/var/run/wpa_supplicant $ sudo wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -i eth0

Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant.

(output truncated, but I can see on my RADIUS server that the 802.1x authentication was successful etc).

-jeff

#4

Don’t run the piaware image if you have such specialized network needs.

Raspbian Lite: ADS B receiver · wiedehopf/adsb-wiki Wiki · GitHub

This should get you going quite quickly, easy to install piaware to feed.

#6

Here’s an actual solution for whoever the next person might be;

I simply added this command to my /etc/rc.local

wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -i eth0 &&

and put my correctly configured wpa_supplicant.conf in the path above (/etc). easy.

-Jeff