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.