Connect to Eduroam using wpa_supplicant

I can never remeber how it’s meant to work, which normally results in lots of authentication errors and google queries.

Less: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_edu.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
        ssid="eduroam"
        key_mgmt=IEEE8021X WPA-NONE WPA-EAP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="abc1@uni.ac.uk"
        password="*****"
        #ca_cert="/location/of/cert" # This might not be required.
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
        priority=2
        auth_alg=OPEN
}

As this will contain your password make sure that only root has read access!

That’s all there is to it. But seeing as I have done this in Arch Linux I’ll include the extra steps taken to get it fully working.

Created a netcfg profile.

Less: /etc/network.d/wlan0-eduroam

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="no"
SECURITY="wpa-config"
ESSID="eduroam"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=30
WPA_CONF="/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_edu.conf"

You should now be able to connect to eduroam with netcfg wlan0-eduroam

And to make it auto connect you need to add the profile to /etc/conf.d/netcfg. See netcfg

24 Jan 2013 | Tags ( arch linux Eduroam wirelss wpa_supplicant )