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[Alex Sharaz <alex.sharaz AT york.ac.uk>]

Have to agree, the chrome book ONC file install procedure is terrible , 
something u might do as a 1st stab at getting things working , certainly not 
a production grade utility 

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> On 27 Aug 2019, at 09:05, Martin Pauly <pauly AT hrz.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Am 26.08.19 um 23:05 schrieb Hunter Fuller:
>> Unfortunately Google's interface for importing the file is just
>> terrible. But it does work.
> unfortunately, not with all devices that call themselves Chromebook.
> I've had three of the kind here in the last year, and the ONC import
> worked on one of them. On the second device, we configured WiFi eduroam
> manually, but I remember a buggy dialogue, there was no consistent
> information about the root cert to compare a server cert to.
> 
> The third device was harder as it needed wired eduroam.
> (LAN adapter fully functional behind a commodity DSL router).
> It neither worked with the ONC file nor with the dialog.
> Despite the presence of all settings, the device never
> emitted any 802.1X packet. The user being pretty experienced
> in that case, she put the device into developer mode.
> As root, we created a config file and fired up
> wpa_supplicant manually. The user successfully worked with this
> setting for some months.
> 
> Conclusion: There's not only a terrible config import interface
> in ChromeOS, but lots of buggy code when it comes to the network
> configuration dialogs. It's all open source though, but I have
> no idea whether Google would really bother to integrate any
> patches into their upstream code. We sent a detailed complaint through
> the ChromOS feedback form, but neither the user nor me received andy reply.
> 
> Martin
> 
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