ESP8266 Community Forum

In the examples I have seen and tried you define the ssid and password something like this:

const char* ssid = "theNetwork";
const char* password = "secretPassword";
and us them like this:

WiFi.begin(ssid, password);

But if you like to contact with a WiFi network where you also need to ad a user, how do you do then?
Can you do something like this:

const char* ssid = "theNetwork";
const char* password = "myUser:secretPassword";
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);

Or shall I use some other technique?

Hi,
What you're referring to us WPA[2] Enterprise authentication and is vastly more complex than the Personal variety which only requires a password. I can't see the ESP8266 ever being able to connect to a network secured in this way as it lacks the RAM and processing power required to do so.

Phil Price wrote:Hi,
What you're referring to us WPA[2] Enterprise authentication and is vastly more complex than the Personal variety which only requires a password. I can't see the ESP8266 ever being able to connect to a network secured in this way as it lacks the RAM and processing power required to do so.

Thanks, I have understood that. I think that I can use a Raspberry Pi to do the Enterprise authentication and connect the ESP8266:s wireless to the Pie.