Finally, I no longer have the pain of not being able to connect to the wireless network on campus (without having wicd installed).
I got it working using the network-manager applet in Gnome that comes installed by default (cause I like it and it makes my life easier). I’ve had people poke fun at me because I don’t feel like traversing the console and running wpa_supplicant manually, I have better things to do, like expecting things to work with the least hassle. But that’s a rant for another time.
Sadly CIS or whoever is responsible for the wireless networks has decided that Ubuntu, Fedora, or any other flavor of Linux won’t be supported. Thanks to one enterprising Maurice Rahe, I had enough information to get started. Since I was working with Ubuntu 9.10 (Jaunty Jackelope) Alpha 6, I needed to update the instructions a bit and turns out we didn’t need to do the manual wpa_supplicant.conf at all. Simply attempt to connect to tamulink-wpa and when it asks for the connection details:
- Security
- WPA & WPA 2 Enterprise
- Authentication
- Protected EAP (PEAP)
- Anonymous Identity
- Leave Blank
- CA Certificate
- /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/ValiCert_Class_2_VA.crt
- PEAP Version
- Version 0
- Inner Authentication
- MSCHAPv2
- User Name
- NETID
- Password
- NETID Password
VOILA, it works! Reconnections kinda suck, but what’ll you do.
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I don’t suppose you could copy and paste the network configurations from wpa_supplicant.conf
This is what I have so far, but can’t get it to work. And I don’t have a netowrk manager, so this is the only way to do it.
Thanks.
network={
ssid=”tamulink-wpa”
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
group=CCMP TKIP
eap=PEAP
identity=”********”
password=”********”
phase2=”AUTH=MSCHAPV2″
ca_cert=”/data/misc/wifi/cacert.pem”
priority=1
}
Posted 31 Mar 2009 at 6:51 pm ¶That’s the thing, network-manager doesn’t create/update wpa_supplicant.conf.
Posted 01 Apr 2009 at 1:17 pm ¶Ok, this worked for me. I guess it should work for most other folks.
network={
Posted 02 Apr 2009 at 10:21 am ¶ssid=”tamulink-wpa”
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=PEAP
identity=”xxxxxx”
password=”xxxxxx”
pairwise=CCMP
}
You geek! I guess I’m one, too since I really needed this setup for my tablet.
Posted 13 May 2009 at 1:01 pm ¶@David oh noes, the Boss’s Boss knows of my blog! I don’t know whether this is awesome or horrible :P
Posted 13 May 2009 at 3:49 pm ¶Thanks!
Posted 05 Jul 2009 at 7:03 pm ¶I’m an Linux newbie and Aggie, and this solved my problem!
Buddy! you are a life saver.
Posted 03 Aug 2009 at 12:24 pm ¶Howdy ags! The Texas A&M Unix & Linux Users Group is still very active, and should you have any problems feel free to chat with us on irc (irc.tamu.edu port 6667 #tamulug), and visit our website: http://tamulug.tamu.edu
TAMULUG President,
Posted 26 Aug 2009 at 12:18 pm ¶Cody
@Daniel
Thanks for the info. Helped me get connected to tamulink with no trouble at all.
You can add the line “update_config=1″ to your ‘wpa_supplicant.conf’ file to allow the network manager to update the wpa_supplicant.conf file
Posted 16 Sep 2009 at 1:41 pm ¶Thanks Daniel ! am a new joinee and just found out the easiest way to connect to ubuntu on campus.
Gig’em !
Posted 24 Sep 2009 at 5:11 pm ¶I have a netbook running Ubuntu 8.04 that I can’t get to connect. I haven’t been able to upgrade to 9.10 and not sure it can even handle that with a 2gb flash drive.
Any ideas on what I should do?
Posted 03 Nov 2009 at 12:04 pm ¶Thanks!
Great post … Thanks!
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