WPA Enterprise UC Davis Wireless Network (resnetx)

stevenplanet · 2011-09-21 22:02:04

So I just installed the Arch Distro and I am LOVING IT. Its so fast and way more customizable than I had ever dreamed. I just moved into UC Davis and am ready for college exceptttttt I CANT GET MY WIRELESS WORKING! I searched countless guides on how to connect using the wireless but to no avail. I'm pretty sure my Intel Card is supported, I installed a netcfg and the card scanned fine. It didnt seem to pickup the WPA Enterprise at Davis though for some reason. I unfortunately don't have access to an ethernet cable and am using a friend's laptop. Can anyone help me to connect? This type of network has a username password combination before I can even connect, not like the ones at starbucks or mcdonalds. You know what I mean, I hope. But its a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 4177.

heres the output for "lspci | grep -i net"

Ethernet Controller : Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000

the sad clown · 2011-09-22 00:47:28

Did you create a profile for the network as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … figuration

stevenplanet · 2011-09-22 22:33:11

When I put in netcfg wireless_wpa_configsection
it spits out

wireless-wpa-configsection up (Busy)
WPA Authentication/Association Failed (FAIL)

Hmmm

MoonSwan · 2011-09-23 00:58:31

My university requires me to get the wifi connection up first with netcfg; after that I have to open firefox and use a page to login with my credentials (name/pword). If yours is a similar set up it shouldn't be too hard to use netcfg or whatever networking software you like then just open FF and login. Got any more helpful messages from the logs?

egan · 2011-09-23 18:08:14

I'm at UC Davis running Arch and after a fair amount of preliminary research I was able to connect to the wireless. Here is my netcfg profile:

CONNECTION='wireless'
INTERFACE=wlan0
SECURITY='wpa-configsection'
IP='dhcp'
CONFIGSECTION='
    ssid="resnetx"
    key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
    eap=PEAP
    group=CCMP
    pairwise=CCMP
    identity="LOGINID"
    password="KERBOROSPASSWD"
    priority=1
    phase1="peapver=0"
    phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"'

I'm a freshman too; it's cool to know there other Archers here.

Last edited by egan (2011-09-23 18:09:04)

stevenplanet · 2011-09-23 19:09:45

egan wrote:

I'm at UC Davis running Arch and after a fair amount of preliminary research I was able to connect to the wireless. Here is my netcfg profile:
CONNECTION='wireless'
INTERFACE=wlan0
SECURITY='wpa-configsection'
IP='dhcp'
CONFIGSECTION='
    ssid="resnetx"
    key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
    eap=PEAP
    group=CCMP
    pairwise=CCMP
    identity="LOGINID"
    password="KERBOROSPASSWD"
    priority=1
    phase1="peapver=0"
    phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"'
I'm a freshman too; it's cool to know there other Archers here.

Damn dude hit me up sometime I got a lot of things to learn from you

So I edited my wireless-wpa-configsection file and ran netcfg wireless-wpa-configsection and basically it still failed. It said wpa_supplicant did not start failed.

EDIT: I GOT IT WORKING! THANKS SO MUCH! I forgot to put the end quote. Silly me! Still learning haha )

Last edited by stevenplanet (2011-09-23 23:02:13)

egan · 2011-09-24 00:50:15

I'm glad you got it working. I'm up for meeting sometime. I'm out in Segundo.

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#1 2011-09-21 22:02:04

WPA Enterprise UC Davis Wireless Network (resnetx)

#2 2011-09-22 00:47:28

Re: WPA Enterprise UC Davis Wireless Network (resnetx)

#3 2011-09-22 22:33:11

Re: WPA Enterprise UC Davis Wireless Network (resnetx)

#4 2011-09-23 00:58:31

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