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khajvah

Member

From: Yerevan, Armenia

Registered: 2012-04-23

Posts: 52

Connect to 802.1x secured network from terminal

I am going to switch back to Arch from ubuntu but my only concern is if I will be able to connect to the internet to set it up. My university provides 802.1x secured network. Network manager connects to it for me now. My configuration details is below:

Authentication: PEAP
No certificate
PEAP version: automatic
Inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
username: ***
password: ***

Last edited by khajvah (2014-05-08 19:36:37)

cris9288

Member

Registered: 2013-01-07

Posts: 348

Re: Connect to 802.1x secured network from terminal

I am going to switch back to Arch from ubuntu but my only concern is if I will be able to connect to the internet to set it up. My university provides 802.1x secured network. Network manager connects to it for me now. My configuration details is below:

Authentication: PEAP
No certificate
PEAP version: automatic
Inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
username: ***
password: ***

Are you concerned with being able to connect to wireless from the installation media? Because if NetworkManager connects you in Ubuntu then it should also connect you in Arch. Here's another tip: if you follow the logs while NetworkManager is connecting you'll notice that it dumps its wpa_supplicant configuration. This way you could create a netctl profile if you really don't want to use NetworkManager.

khajvah

Member

From: Yerevan, Armenia

Registered: 2012-04-23

Posts: 52

Re: Connect to 802.1x secured network from terminal

I want to use NetworkManager but does Arch come with it? I need a starting internet connection to be able to install NetworkManager and I have only access to my university network.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,337

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Re: Connect to 802.1x secured network from terminal

Arch doesn't "come with" anything.  You chose what to install.  The installation iso comes with a certain set of packages.  This does include everything needed to connect to wireless networks on a wide range of hardware.  If you only install the base group (or base + base-devel) the new installation will not have any tools to connect to wireless networks.  Install wireless_tools, wpa_supplicant, and/or NetworkManager or whatever other tools you want.

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