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Msegade

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Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 7

Trying to connect to University Wifi

Im trying to connect to the university Wifi, usually it worked fine following this steps:

1. Connect to the SSID via NetworkManager
2. Open any page in Firefox and I will be redirected to a login screen
3. Enter credentials and browse normally

But this method stopped working this week as I don't get redirected to any login screen.

I have tried:

* Disabling all firefox extensions
* Entering in incognito mode
* Entering the address of the default gateway

None of this worked, so I tried to investigate with wireshark and I see it is stuck in the dhcp step:

https://s29.postimg.org/jqo9s30zb/packets.png

ip link shows the following information

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: wlp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:21:5c:e2:24:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

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Last edited by Trilby (2017-02-08 16:04:11)

xvzf

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Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 86

Re: Trying to connect to University Wifi

Do you have something called EDUROAM at your university? Maybe give that a try!

At my university, I can log into the guest network and then connect via VPN. Might be an option!

Cheers,
Matthias

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rexx

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Registered: 2017-02-04

Posts: 10

Re: Trying to connect to University Wifi

Have you tried manually assigning a static IP before connecting?

I usually do it via nm-connection-editor:

https://s24.postimg.org/6pzfjik7p/manual_ipv4.png

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Last edited by Trilby (2017-02-08 16:04:55)