Re: NetworkManager 0.7.1 failing with university's WPA2-Enterprise wifi

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Jud Craft wrote:
> Hello there.  I've been trying for about a week and a half to get my
> Fedora 11 laptop working with my university's wifi network.
>
> It is a WPA2-enterprise, certificate-using, PEAP, MSCHAPV2 type of
> wireless network.  I am certain I know my wireless access user name
> and password, and even the domain (although I'm not sure if that's
> useful).  I have the certificate and the connection working fine under
> Windows.
>
> I cannot get it to work under Fedora.  I wish I could give more useful
> information -- "my WPA wifi won't work" isn't good enough for a bug
> report, I haven't proven anything's wrong.  But I'm no fool and
> relatively linux-savvy.  Is there any reason why a WPA+certificate
> network might not be able to work under Linux?
>
> The funny thing is, I actually got it to work last Friday, without
> question, all day.  When I changed my password over the weekend
> though, I couldn't log on to it on Monday or hereafter.  (My
> nm-version from Fedora-stable is 0.7.1-git-20090708, so the software
> hasn't been changed.)
>
> If it helps, I've heard that some of my Mac friends are having trouble
> getting on to it, but that might be a red herring.
>
> In the past (back at college) I'd just ignore this and go back to
> Windows.  But I really want it to work -- there's no reason why it
> shouldn't.  Are there any pointers or anything I could have missed?
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There's definitely some breakage in that area in NetworkManager. I use 
eduroam all the time (with WPA-EAP). It works flawlessly with just 
wpa_supplicant, but NetworkManager never managed to get the auth done. 
Haven't bothered to debug it so far, because I mostly use wpa_supplicant 
anyway. If it helps, this is the network config I use to connect to eduroam:

network={
        ssid="eduroam"
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        eap=TTLS
        identity="yourid university edu"
        anonymous_identity="anonymous university edu"
	password="yourpassword"
        ca_cert="/path/to/university-certificate"
        phase2="auth=PAP"
}

But your university should definitely offer some documentation on how to 
configure wpa_supplicant for their network.