Eduroam with wpa_config

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!