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Sofflock

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Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 24

Unable to connect to wpa2 netctl

I am trying to connect to my guest network in the office, which has the security of wpa2, including a secondary authentication after you are connect (opens a website and tells you to "agree".

I am successfully starting a connection with the profile as it is marked with a *.

But whenever I open the browser the secondary authentication page is not displayed but it instead go to "Webpage cannot be loaded":

and

netctl is-active ctl_guest
active

According to wiki I should install other packages such as netctl-eduroam (AUR) this seems to provide an example profile.
Is there anyway I can create this manually due to not having a network connection at the moment at all.

Cheerio

edit: I check my profile in /etc/netctl/ctl_guest

Description= 'Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu
Interface=wlp3s0
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa2
ESSID=ctl_guest
IP=dhcp
Key=\encrypted text

So I changed it to

Description= 'Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu
Interface=wlp3s0
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa2
ESSID=ctl_guest
IP=dhcp
Key=\encrypted text

Now I am getting error Unsupperted security setting wpa2.

Edit: I chacnged security back to wpa from wpa2 and was able to connect.
But I had to manually enter the URL for the secondary authentication.
Would still be nice for this to be autoredirected for when I connect.

Any ideas what the issue might be?

Last edited by Sofflock (2016-09-03 13:58:36)

robby

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Registered: 2016-08-07

Posts: 69

Re: Unable to connect to wpa2 netctl

I have the same issue at my college and I had to type in the URL as well. Super annoying.