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ThurnisH41ey

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Registered: 2015-03-24

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Connman WPA2 enterprise issues

Hey guys. I'm switching from netctl to connman and I much prefer connman except for the fact that it has a lot of trouble connecting to my university wireless. My censored netctl config is here - this worked but with netctl's inherent issues. My censored connman config is here. I've verified that the hex service names are correct (apparently people had a problem with misspelling them). When I run

systemctl restart connman wpa_supplicant

, nothing happens.

journalctl -xe

returns nothing of relevance. Help much appreciated!

Alad

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From: Bagelstan

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Re: Connman WPA2 enterprise issues

Did you try without the hash: in the connman config?

See also "Debugging" in:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/conn … ree/README

Last edited by Alad (2016-01-06 14:38:34)

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ThurnisH41ey

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Registered: 2015-03-24

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Re: Connman WPA2 enterprise issues

I did try without the hash. My password has spaces and special characters, so I figured a hash would be more appropriate - also to avoid storing a passphrase in plaintext. I used

echo passphrase | iconv -t utf16le | openssl md4

to generate the hash, as outlined in ArchWiki WPA2 Enterprise. The README linked shows you how to enable debugging when directly running connmand, but I'm not sure where that output goes as I'm running it via systemd.

Alad

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From: Bagelstan

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Re: Connman WPA2 enterprise issues

The wiki outlines it for netctl - it's under the netctl section after all.

Either run connmand manually by first halting the service, or modify the service file.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ided_units

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ThurnisH41ey

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Registered: 2015-03-24

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Re: Connman WPA2 enterprise issues

Okay, I went to plaintext. I halted the service and ran

connmand -dn

so I could watch the output in my terminal. It successfully shows all of the available networks, but then gives no indication that it's trying to connect to one of them. I've verified that the network I'm trying to connect to exactly matches the names in my file - should it not autodetect?