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__rishuu__

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Registered: 2018-10-27

Posts: 1

Can't connect to institute WiFi.

I've recently installed arch and then added kde on top of it. The WiFi is able to connect to any WiFi network, but, not my institute WiFi.

My institute WiFi opens a captive portal to give internet connection for a fixed time for a registered mac address.

The problem is that arch is not able to connect to the WiFi. I've tried windows and Ubuntu (they connect pretty well).

I've tried disabling dhcpcd service, so that network manager uses it's own. (Didn't work)

Used network manager with cli.

$ nmcli dev wifi connect ssid password pass

It outputs
Error: connection activation failed: (5) ip configuration could not be reserved (no available address, timeout, etc.).

Also in the gui of network manager
It is able to configure interface, but gets stuck on setting network address.

Any solution to this?

Piri

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Registered: 2018-06-02

Posts: 70

Re: Can't connect to institute WiFi.

Make sure that MAC-randomization is not enabled for NetworkManager.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … domization