[Pardus-users] Problems connecting to eduroam

[Isbaran Akcayir]

Emre Sururi wrote On 20-04-2008 10:31:
> Dear Pardus developers,

Hello,

> Recently I've migrated from Fedora to Pardus. One of the main reasons 
> for my migration was the failure of Fedora's Network Manager in 
> connecting to the eduroam. Unfortunately, I still haven't managed to 
> connect to the network. The network applet simply reports that 
> "Authentication Failed" even though I correctly enter my account 
> information (I know this because, I know it's not a nice thing to say 
> but, I can connect perfectly well from within Windows XP using the same 
> credentials). Also, I don't think that it is an adapter related issue 
> since I can connect to the access point I've setup at home easily.
> 
> You can find the procedures to connect to the eduroam from my university 
> at http://luchthaven.tudelft.nl/engels/peap.htm (using PEAP for Windows) 
> and at http://luchthaven.tudelft.nl/engels/ttls.htm (using TTLS for Ubuntu).
> 
> While searching for clues on how to connect, I found some articles 
> assisting to connect via wpa_supplicant. I gave a shot but couldn't 
> advance further than these:
> 
> dutsm0175 ~ # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> network={
> 
> ssid="eduroam"
> key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
> eap=TTLS
> phase2="auth=PAP"
> anonymous_identity="anonymous at tudelft.nl"
> identity="etasci at tudelft.nl"
> password="xxxx"
> }

Choose peap/mschapv2 from network-manager, enter your username and 
password, also add the configuration part to wpa_supplicant.conf and it 
should work. This is how we connect to eduroam here with Pardus.