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ObnoxiousFrog

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Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

I am having problems trying to connect but I dont know where to start any help is appreciated. I am using a macbook pro 2015 13" and here is my system 'Linux user 4.3.3-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 20 08:12:23 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
'.

Connection=’wireless’
Interface=wlp3s0
Security=’wpa-configsection’
Description=”eduroam”
IP=’dhcp’
TimeoutWPA=30
WPAConfigSection=(
‘ssid=”eduroam”‘
‘key_mgmt=WPA-EAP’
‘eap=TTLS’
‘proto=WPA2’
‘phase2=”auth=MSCHAPV2″‘
‘anonymous_identity=”@(university email)”‘

‘identity=”(my identity here)″‘
# you should put the certificate in /etc/ssl/certs
‘ca_cert=”(my cert destination)”‘
‘password=”(my password)”‘
)

here is the error  using dmesg | grep:
[    1.515743] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[    1.531052] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt failed with error -2
[    2.058310] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Nov 10 2015 06:38:10 version 7.35.177.61 (r598657) FWID 01-ea662a8c
[    2.094861] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_reg_notifier: not a ISO3166 code
[    2.098957] brcmfmac 0000:03:00.0 wlp3s0: renamed from wlan0

when i try to run 'netctl start eduroam', i get:
Jan 25 22:07:07 user systemd[1]: Starting Networking for netctl profile eduroam...
-- Subject: Unit netctl@eduroam.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/li … temd-devel
--
-- Unit netctl@eduroam.service has begun starting up.
Jan 25 22:07:07 user network[1284]: Profile 'eduroam' does not specify a valid connection
Jan 25 22:07:07 user systemd[1]: netctl@eduroam.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 25 22:07:07 user systemd[1]: Failed to start Networking for netctl profile eduroam.
-- Subject: Unit netctl@eduroam.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/li … temd-devel
--
-- Unit netctl@eduroam.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jan 25 22:07:07 user systemd[1]: netctl@eduroam.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 25 22:07:07 user systemd[1]: netctl@eduroam.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 25 22:07:07 user polkitd[325]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:1275:77934 (system bus name :1.41, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)

Anyone know what im doing wrong? Any help is appreciated

R00KIE

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

Try to connect manually with wpa_supplicant and a dhcp client and check if you have trouble authenticating or getting an ip.

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respiranto

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

Welcome to Arch's BBS!

Assuming that you copied this litterally, you apparently have used special quotes (’|”) instead of the regular ones ('|").
This is probably due to the editor you used - I can only recommend learning how to use a command line editor - the easiest being nano, the question of the best staying unanswered.

jasonwryan

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

I can only recommend learning how to use a command line editor - the easiest being nano, the question of the best: staying unanswered obviously vim.

FTFY

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Xyne

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

I can only recommend learning how to use a command line editor - the easiest being nano, the question of the best: staying unanswered obviously vim.

FTFY

He's a wiki admin so it must be true.

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ObnoxiousFrog

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

Welcome to Arch's BBS!

Assuming that you copied this litterally, you apparently have used special quotes (’|”) instead of the regular ones ('|").
This is probably due to the editor you used - I can only recommend learning how to use a command line editor - the easiest being nano, the question of the best staying unanswered.

Is the a difference between the quotations?

respiranto

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

I can only recommend learning how to use a command line editor - the easiest being nano, the question of the best: staying unanswered obviously vim.

FTFY

He's a wiki admin so it must be true.

I bow my head to such great wisdom.
Now my long lasting search for the holy editor has finally ended in enlightenment!
Farewell, dear ed.

Is the a difference between the quotations?

Provided the case that you have a text editor or web browser that has the ability to change the characters size, you will see that there actually is a difference.
If you was instead asking whether this would make a difference to a parsing program, then yes, in Computing syntax is always strict. Though ' and " can in some programming languages or also "configuration languages" be used interchangeably, at least in certain situations, mostly when there is no variable to be expanded between the quotes.

botika

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

My config:

Description='Eduroam university'
Interface=YOUR Interface
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa-configsection
IP=dhcp
ESSID=eduroam
WPAConfigSection=(
    'ssid="eduroam"'
    'proto=RSN WPA'
    'key_mgmt=WPA-EAP'
    'eap=TTLS'
    'identity="YOUR MAIL"'
    'password="YOUR PASSWORD"'
    'ca_path="/etc/ssl/certs/"'
    'ca_path2="/etc/ssl/certs/"'
    'phase2="auth=PAP"'
)

Copy and paste in /etc/netctl/eduroam , and run

sudo netctl start eduroam

... if not run post a reply.
See you.

Xyne

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Re: Connection to eduroam (using netctl)

Is the a difference between the quotations?

yes

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