University Wireless Network Issues

yougotdslapd · 2015-02-14 23:17:46

Hi!

I'm having wireless connectivity issues with my University. For reference, Windows works fine on all of their networks (I installed Windows to test, then reverted back to Arch).

So there are 3 networks - rit, rit_guest, and rit_wpa2.

rit_wpa2 is a WPA2 ENTERPRISE PEAP/MSCHAPV2 network. I try to login with my credentials and it works! But I get NO INTERNET CONNECTION. I get assigned an IP, but receive no packets. I'm using network manager and I've also tried to get it to work with wicd with no luck.

rit does the same, as does rit_guest.

My wireless card is an Intel Centrino Advanced-n 6250 WiMax card. Ethernet connections work fine, and thats a Realek something or other.

Any help is appreciated.

Alad · 2015-02-14 23:23:40

Sounds like some kind of authentication issue. Sometimes you have to use some web login to get access.

Either way, did you follow the WPA2 Enterprise instructions from the Wiki, and especially those from your university? If you did, or there are no such details available, you'll have better luck asking at your IT department than here.

PS: Try connman.

Last edited by Alad (2015-02-14 23:26:23)

yougotdslapd · 2015-02-15 00:04:50

Okay well I couldn't figure out connman so I got wicd again and it's working on the rit network...so far so good. We'll see what happens on Monday when people are actually here....I dont want to be stuck with this network because it's not secured and idk what people are doing on it or what they can see. Wicd produces the same results when trying to access the internet on rit_wpa2. Is there any way to customize a wicd profile?

EDIT: I went to my old Uni last weekend and was able to connect to their WPA2-Enterprise netowrk with no problem. This network is a radius server...perhaps my wireless card doesn't play nice with radius? Other linux users have no problem. I had no problems last semester.

Last edited by yougotdslapd (2015-02-15 00:28:57)

Trilby · 2015-02-15 01:16:50

Is that rit as in Rochester Institute of Technology? If so I'm sure you could find some other archers around as RIT hosts a consistently reliable and up-to-date archlinux mirror.

R00KIE · 2015-02-16 15:19:05

When things don't work, try doing all the steps manually, use wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd/dhclient manually. That way you will be able to see a lot more information that might point you in the right direction to solve the problem.

AnonFriendly · 2015-03-30 22:05:00

I'm not saying this is the reason, but i remember when i was in college i couldnt connect to the network with linux because you had to have a certain antivirus installed. and you could only run that antivirus on windows.

Alad · 2015-03-30 22:13:56

Something like: http://www.sonicwall.com/us/en/products … yware.html

So.. how does it know you don't have the antivirus software installed? Traffic inspection? Java applet? ActiveX?

Last edited by Alad (2015-03-30 22:16:21)

AnonFriendly · 2015-03-30 22:23:34

well for my school, it said it on the website that you needed the anitvirus. id either go on your schools website and look at Frequent questions. or contact IT.
to be honest i'm not exactly sure how they knew what antivirus you had installed. always freaked me out.

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