[YLUG] Setting up eduroam wireless on university campus?

[Harry Mills]

Mike Cohler wrote:
> I run Fedora (F7) and have my home wireless LAN running with a Linksys
> AP set to use WPA-PSK and my laptop runs perfectly well in a wireless
> connection using wpa_supplicant with this system (it is a Dell D610
> with IPW2200 wireless chip). This has only recently become possible
> with new versions of the kernel in F7, but it does work well
> currently.
> 
> However, the problem is getting a wireless connection at the
> university. I have tried almost everything I have thought of or been
> able to dredge from the web on setting up the wpa_supplicant.conf file
> for the network block required to get a connection to the
> WPA/TKIP/PEAP/MSCHAPV2 encrypted wireless connection to eduroam on
> campus.
> 
> I have set it up with and without various of the parameters such as
> pairwise/group/ca_cert (from the verisign root server)/auth_alg/eap
> and so on. I am aware that wpa_supplicant is still in development and
> that it does have some problems with specific access points, but it
> would be nice to get this working.
> 
> I presume I must have missed something obvious, but does anyone have a
> working wpa_supplicant.conf file for a laptop that does connect to
> eduroam on the York campus (with passwords etc obscured of course) so
> that I can see what I am doing wrong? Preferably F7 based setup but
> any Linux laptop which has been able to connect would at least give me
> a pointer in the right direction.
> 
> Thanks
> 
Try using Network Manager - it will automatically prompt for a 
certificate and a username and password. If you have problems try 
without the cert. Also remember it is PEAP and MS-CHAPv2.

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Regards,

Harry Mills <mail at hjmills.co.uk>
http://hjmills.co.uk