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ihavenoname

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 198

Wireless at University

I'm at the University of Florida, and here to use the wireless internet, you first choose the ufw wireless essid then you open a web browser and log in with your school issued id. This is painless enough on windows. However on linux using network manager it fails to make any connection. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm sorry if I haven't providided enough information, if their is anything that I SHOULD have mentioned please tell me. Thank you.

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shen

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Registered: 2003-09-05

Posts: 272

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Re: Wireless at University

Have you tried manually bringing up the interface with ifconfig then use iwconfig to set the essid and then dhcpcd to get an ip? I am not sure what you guys use at your university for authentication but my school recently added such a system and I had to have them set me up to bypass the auth since their software didn't support linux.

Anyways I would try to manually do it and see how that works.. I user profiles and just use netcfg to handle it...Network manager has never worked to well for me anyways. Also you can try wicd but if there are more then a couple wifi gateways it'll crash or hand and not load.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Wireless at University

I had this, and the problem seemed to be /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. You see there are a bunch of example settings there, and they're all uncommented for some reason, which (again for some weird reason) causes a parsing error. I deleted them and left in only the standard roaming profile:

network={
  key_mgmt=NONE
}

And now networkmanager works fine.

vrunner1

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 6

Re: Wireless at University

Do you have an intel wireless card ?
I had similar problems in which NetworkManager couldn't connect to any network.
Fixed it by applying a patched ipw3945 driver from Ubuntu..

Try this Package from AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … 1&ID=13302