I'm working on a project for university, and I'm supposed to setup an arduino pro gateway (not a wisgate) as part of a LoRaWAN, which means that I need to connect it to the internet. From what I read online, it looks like I can only use an ethernet connection for that. The thing is, I have to do it at university. I tried at home, the gateway seems to work fine, but simply plugging the ethernet cable in an RJ45 outlet on campus doesn't connect the gateway (which is to be expected, you need a username and password to use the campus' internet). And our professor advisor wants us to use a wifi connection anyway.
So I was wondering what my options could be. I was thinking of either getting a router to get the campus' wifi and connect the gateway using the ethernet cable to this router or getting a wifi module and plug it to the gateway.
I think the first solution would be better, as I wouldn't have to directly modify the gateway, and use it "as is", but I don't know if our professors will let us do that.
If you have any advice or solution, feel free to share them !
PS: I never used a gateway, so maybe there is an obvious thing that I miss, I apologize if that's the case.
An Arduino Pro Gateway is a Rapsberry Pi 3 B+, so simply activate the WiFi on that board and connect to the campus network.
We cannot help you with the authentication as we have no clue how your campus network works, how credentials are supplied and the like.
Sorry for bothering again. I setup the Raspberry Pi board, I connected it to the WiFi, it works fine but the gateway still appears offline on the arduino manager for linux tool. Is there something else I should do to ?
The thing is, the IT department will probably take weeks to take this into account. They generally set up ethernet connections for university's pc's and that's it, and I think this is one of the reason why our professors don't want us to use ethernet. It's probably too complicated.
It doesn't matter how you connect to the network, WiFi or ethernet, once connected you are at the mercy of whatever rules are in the network routers and firewalls. If they block access to something you need to connect to then the means by which your project is connected is irrelevant, if there's a block then the only way past it is to persuade the IT department to remove it.
Sorry for the late reply. We ended up using a router they had lying around, which they used in similar projects. I also had to reinstall the recommanded OS. Thnak you all for your help !