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yinyangmills

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Registered: 2025-03-21

Posts: 11

Unable to connect to eduroam

I am having trouble connecting to eduroam. Note that I had the same kind of trouble when using ubuntu on the same laptop, but not when using my windows dual boot.

My institution's instructions are for Fedora linux, and say that you should set the following:

 
Security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: Tunneled TLS
Anonymous identity: 
CA certificate: (None)
Inner authentication: PAP
Username: username@myinstitution.something
Password: mypassword

After trying multiple times to connect from nmtui and failing, I then tried to modify the config directly. I've tried various different configs, but my current config looks like this:

[connection]
id=eduroam
uuid=00b25c97-700f-4892-8690-e7bdd54513b9
type=wifi
interface-name=wlo1
permissions=

[wifi]
mode=infrastructure
ssid=eduroam

[wifi-security]
auth-alg=open
key-mgmt=wpa-eap

[802-1x]
eap=ttls;
identity=username@myinstitution.something
password='my password'
password-flags=0
phase2-auth=pap
anonumous-identity=anonymous@ntua.gr

[ipv4]
method=auto

[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=default
method=auto

[proxy]

I then restart the NetworkManager, and do

nmcli connection up eduroam

to connect to eduroam, and I get the following message:

Passwords or encryption keys are required to access the wireless network 'eduroam'.
Warning: password for '802-1x.identity' not given in 'passwd-file' and nmcli cannot ask without '--ask' option.
Error: Connection activation failed: Secrets were required, but not provided
Hint: use 'journalctl -xe NM_CONNECTION=00b25c97-700f-4892-8690-e7bdd54513b9 + NM_DEVICE=wlo1' to get more details.

Under the guidance of Claude I also tried using wpa_supplicant but I didn't really know what was going on, and I also failed. By the way, my password has spaces in it. Idk if that has something to do with the apparent failure to read the password. Either way, I am having a very hard time with this, and I also had a hard time with this on Ubuntu, but I really want to fix this now.

Last edited by yinyangmills (2025-03-24 09:58:03)

ud44

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Registered: 2026-02-06

Posts: 1

Re: Unable to connect to eduroam

Did you end up fixing this problem?

yinyangmills

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Registered: 2025-03-21

Posts: 11

Re: Unable to connect to eduroam

No, unfortunately I did not.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Unable to connect to eduroam

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … ss#eduroam

Warning: password for '802-1x.identity' not given in 'passwd-file' and nmcli cannot ask without '--ask' option.
Error: Connection activation failed: Secrets were required, but not provided

Just to be sure, "username@myinstitution.something" isn't literal, is it?
Have you tried passing the --ask option?

my password has spaces in it

Using some random GUI tool to generate the profile will likely put the password there w/ the correct formatting.

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mithrial

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Registered: 2017-03-05

Posts: 129

Re: Unable to connect to eduroam

Passwords with spaces can to lead to all kinds of problems. I would recommend changing this.