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cer_nagas

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Registered: 2015-07-01

Posts: 25

Netctl not working with eduroam

Hi, I cannot connect to wireless eduroam network of my school. It works if I plug ethernet cable in, but no luck with wifi yet.
I tried to used wifi-menu (which shouldn't  work, but I tried ) and configured netctl profiles in many ways, most recent is:

Connection='wireless'
Interface= 'wlp3s0'
Security='wpa-configsection'
Description="eduroam network"
IP='dhcp'
TimeoutWPA=30
WPAConfigSection=(
    'ssid="eduroam"'
    'key_mgmt=WPA-EAP'
    'eap=TTLS'
    'proto=WPA2'
    'phase2="auth=PAP"'
    'anonymous_identity="anonymous@hin.no"'
    'identity="<my number>@hin.no"'
    'ca_cert="/usr/share/ca-certificates/trust-source/mozilla.trust.crt"'
    'password="<my pass>"'
)

The error is always like this:

Job for netctl@eduroam.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status netctl@eduroam.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

When I type "systemctl status netctl@eduroam.service", result is:

netctl@bonding.service - Networking for netctl profile bonding
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netctl@.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2015-11-13 21:23:35 CET; 20s ago
     Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)
  Process: 4942 ExecStart=/usr/lib/network/network start %I (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 4942 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Is there something wrong with netctl start? Please help me, I've been struggling for a while.

jasonwryan

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Re: Netctl not working with eduroam

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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cer_nagas

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Registered: 2015-07-01

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Re: Netctl not working with eduroam

Uhm... Anyone please?

fsckd

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Re: Netctl not working with eduroam

What does the journal say?

Maybe try connecting with wpa_supplicant to rule out if the problem is with netctl.

Also, no bumping please. Thanks.

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respiranto

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Registered: 2015-05-15

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Re: Netctl not working with eduroam

See this and maybe this.
I also had the impression, that having installed networkmanager and/or network-manager-applet respectively one of its dependencies is necessary for connecting for the first time (on a given day).
However this might be wrong since for me it does anyway only work maybe two times out of three, and I'm not often able to check - and happy as soon as it works.

And yes, using wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd directly is probably a good idea.

cer_nagas

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Registered: 2015-07-01

Posts: 25

Re: Netctl not working with eduroam

Thank you for the reply. I will try it tomorrow when I'm on school.