Eduroam – Linux

 

 

The Eduroam network enables students, researches and staff to connect to the Internet through a wireless network throughout the university campuses, in Israel and abroad. Click here for Eduroam’s website.

 

Notes:

  1. Login account – identification is done by connecting to the university RA account in format username@huji.ac.il
  2. If you do not have one, you can register at http://rap.huji.ac.il, which can be accessed from the HUJI-guest wireless network

Manual Setup

Step 1

Load the Networkmanager

Networkmanager

Step 2

Click on eduroam

eduroam

Step 3

  • Choose WPA & WPA2 Enterprise under Wireless Security
  • Choose Protected EAP (PEAP) under Authentication
  • Under Anonymous identity type anonymous@huji.ac.il
  • Under username type the username according to the format: username@huji.ac.il
  • Under password type your password. Note: you can’t use your OTP password
  • Under CA certificate choose the location of the certificate DigiCert Assured ID Root CA
  • Click on Connect

הגדרות eduroam

Note:

Under CA Certificate File, type the location of your certificate. In order to find the location, click the command: ‎locate *.pem|grep DigiCert‎

Using the Command Line with WPA Supplicant

Step 1

  • Login as root
  • You must edit the file ‎/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
  • Type the following parameters


ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
   scan_ssid=1
   ssid="eduroam"
   key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
   eap=PEAP
   identity="xxx@huji.ac.il"
   password="XXXXXX"
   ca_cert="$CERT.pem"
   phase1="peaplabel=0"
   phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
}

Note:

  • Under ca_cert you need to replace the $CERT with the location of DigiCert Assured ID Root CA. You can find the certificate location using the next command: locate *.pem|grep DigiCert
  • Under identity type your username username@huji.ac.il
  • Under password type your password

המשך הגדרת eduroam

Step 2

  • Run the command

 wpa_supplicant -i $WLAN -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf&

Note:

Instead of $WLAN type the name of your interface.

In order to see the name type iwconfig

  • Wait until the verification is complete
  • In order to receive an IP address type: dhclient
  • In order to see if you are connected type: ifconfig -a

המשך הגדרת eduroam

Logout

  • Type the command: ifconfig $WLAN down

Note:

Instead of $WLAN type the name of your interface

התנתקות מeduroam