Freeradius for securing wlan in big installation

[Josh Howlett]

Hi Thomas,

What you're asking for is not possible, with any combination of existing 
technologies.

Drop the web portal, and use an 802.1X supplicant. FreeRADIUS does this 
well :-)

best regards, josh.

Thomas Widhalm wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm searching for a way to secure our wireless Lan with encryption, but
> we don't want any sort of authentication. This is, because we have
> another way of authenticating our users (a webportal, they have to log
> in, before getting access to the wlan)
> 
> What we want is an encrypted wlan without our helpdesk installing
> software or passing keys to our users. They are using all kinds of OSs.
> 
> Can freeradius actually provide us with that or do we have to search for
> another solution?
> 
> Sorry if the answer is obvious, but we are running out of time and so I
> got to ask around a lot.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Thomas Widhalm