[ubuntu-uk] connecting to secure network in University

[Patrick Bulteel]

Hi Graham,

there's a bug logged for this against Network Manager:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632184

I believe this is the same issue you're encountering and in fact it's the
issue that I have with my company's WiFi and certificates. The same
certificate is used for 802.1X on the wired network and this works, but it
doesn't work on the WiFi which uses WPA/WPA2 Enterprise. I hadn't been
digging deeper into this until a few days ago. It seems that it partially
depends on the network driver as a colleague with a different wifi card is
able to get on the network, but I'm not. I'm trying to gather as much
information to see if I can get the developers fix it.

It didn't happen on 10.04 base install, up to about a week or two before
10.10 was out, so you could try using a 10.04 installation and see if it
works for you.

Kind regards,

Patrick Bulteel

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> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:56:57 +0000
> From: Graham Smith <myotistwo at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] connecting to secure network in University
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> Hello,
>
> There has been a change in the security at the University I work at, and
> where as before I could connect to the wireless network by simply typing in
> password and username (which I can still do with my Macbook Pro) connecting
> with Ubuntu 10.10 is defeating me. The   netbook is finding
> and identifying the wireless network OK.
>
> Selecting the network gives  a pop up dialog and filling in the connection
> settings (as best I can) simply allows the connection details box to
> disappear and then re-appear a few seconds later.
>
> There are instructions available for Nokia S60 phones and Windows (but none
> for Linux).
>
> Taking the settings from the windows instructions, I have the following set
> up as a network connection
>
> Wireless tab:
>
> SSID:  the network name
> Mode: infrastructure
> BSSID: blank
> MAC address: left blank
> MTU: automatic
>
> Wireless security:
> Security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
> Authentication: Protected EAP (PEAP)
> Anonymous identity: left blank
> CA Certificate: None  (but windows instructions tell you to search for
> certficate and authenticate it, The Mac does this automatically)
> PEAP version: automatic
> inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
> username; my username
> password: my password
>
> IPv4 settings:
> Automatic DHCP
>
> IPv6 settings:
> ignore
>
>
> The instruction for windows says to select WPA2, PEAP, uncheck authenticate
> as computer when computer information is available, uncheck fast reconnect,
>  configure secure password (EAP-MSCHAPv2) to either domain account or local
> account, and to validate server certificate.
>
> I have been telling Ubuntu to ignore the certificate request, which from
> what I have read should still work.
>
> I would be very grateful if anyone can suggest what I should be trying to
> get connected.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Graham
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