a February 1st, 2011

  1. Eduroam with wpa_config

    February 1, 2011 by Vincent

    My school (Avans) has been using Eduroam for a while now. However, I haven’t been able to get it working. Mostly because I was lazy and they had a legacy support option which was using MAC address whitelisting, which was a lot easier to set up. But this option hasn’t been working great lately so I sat down and tried to get Eduroam working.

    I use Archlinux on my laptop, which has an awesome tool for managing networks using only a commandline tool and some configuration files called netcfg. Netcfg can use the well known wpa_supplicant to authenticate with a protected network. To connect to an Eduroam you need a working config file. The following one worked for me at Avans.


    eapol_version=1
    ap_scan=1
    fast_reauth=1

    network={
    ssid="eduroam"
    key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
    eap=TTLS
    identity="<>@avans.nl"
    anonymous_identity="anonymous@avans.nl"
    password="<>"
    priority=2
    phase2="auth=PAP"
    }

    Good luck with it!