The Raspberry Pi is a great little device, but the fact that it does not have a built in display and keyboard like a laptop can be very inconvenient. I previously wrote a post about a web controlled robot that used a RPi, and while the RPi was great for controlling it, getting the robot onto the school’s wireless network meant connecting a screen and keyboard to the Pi, starting the gui, opening the browser, then logging in to the network.
This setup was very cumbersome, and limited the functionality of the robot. At UAF, eduroam provides a way to connect to the wireless without logging in, so I set out to get my robot to connect to it.Dr. Lawlor has a great blog post about connecting to eduroam on Ubuntu, but the gui on Raspbian, wpa_gui, was so limited that the network could not be set up.
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