Is it possible to get ESP8266 running on WPA2 Enterprise network?

Question

I've seen examples for ESP8266 chip Wifi clients logging onto a WPA2 personal network.

However, is it possible for an ESP8266 client to login to an enterprise network?

Arguelles

Answer 1

Since Version 2.0 of the Espressif SDK, ESP8266 can be connected to both EAP and PEAP WPA2 Enterprise networks.

I quote a small guide from GitHub on how to implement the connection:

1. Call wifi_station_set_config to set the configuration of target AP.
2. Call wifi_station_set_wpa2_enterprise_auth(1); to enable WPA2_Enterprise authentication.
   • For EAP-TLS authentication, call wifi_station_set_enterprise_cert_key to set certificate and private key. wifi_station_set_enterprise_username is an optional choice, it can be called to set user name.
   • For EAP-TTLS or EAP-PEAP authentication, call wifi_station_set_enterprise_username and wifi_station_set_enterprise_password to set user name and password. wifi_station_set_enterprise_ca_cert is an optional choice, it can be called to set root certificate.
3. Call wifi_station_connect to connect to target AP.
4. After being connected to an AP, or failing to connect to AP and on stopped retries, please call the corresponding wifi_station_clear_enterprise_XXX APIs to release the resources.

Finance

Answer 2

The feature was recently added and is not mature. It currently supports certificate (EAP-TLS) but not password (PEAP) authentication.

References:

• https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/1102
• http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1442

Slater

The newest version of the Espressif SDK now supports PEAP. – Finance