guzu
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Connecting to a Wpa2 Enterprise WiFi

Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:54 pm

Hello.
I am trying to connect to a WiFi network that uses the wpa2 Enterprise security protocol (I have the username ans password)

What do I have to do to be able to connect? (When i click on the wifi icon on the Pi I see the network i want to connect but it is greyed out and I connot click on it)

I have the wpa_supplicant.conf file from my phone that is connected to the network.
I tried overwriting the existing wpa_supplicant.conf file in my etc/wpa_supplicant folder on the pi, but now when I go over the network icon it says : no wireless interfaces found

I have the original wpa_supplicant.conf file.
I tried a few methods I found online but none worked.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

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Re: Connecting to a Wpa2 Enterprise WiFi

Tue Nov 15, 2016 7:03 pm

What security scheme is it really using? LEAP? PEAP? MSCHAPV2?

Discover that info and use the sample configuration at: http://www.cs.upc.edu/lclsi/Manuales/wi ... icant.conf to rewrite your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file with the credentials you need to connect.
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Re: Connecting to a Wpa2 Enterprise WiFi

Thu Nov 17, 2016 5:04 am

DougieLawson wrote:What security scheme is it really using? LEAP? PEAP? MSCHAPV2?

Discover that info and use the sample configuration at: http://www.cs.upc.edu/lclsi/Manuales/wi ... icant.conf to rewrite your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file with the credentials you need to connect.
Thank you.
I am new to this. Can you tell me how to get the security scheme? Can I find it from my laptop? (using windows 10)
Can I find it from my phone's wpa_supplicant.conf file? (I have access to it)

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Re: Connecting to a Wpa2 Enterprise WiFi

Thu Nov 17, 2016 9:05 am

Probably from the people providing the WiFi access.

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Re: Connecting to a Wpa2 Enterprise WiFi

Thu Nov 17, 2016 4:45 pm

bensimmo wrote:Probably from the people providing the WiFi access.
Thank you.

But is it possible to find out this in another manner? From my laptop, phone, tablet?

//edit

I found out that my network uses PEAP (Protected EAP) and encryption type AES.
But I can't seem to understand what to write in the wpa_supplicant file :( :(
Do I need anything else ? Can anyone tell me what I have to enter in the file.

Thank you very very much.

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Re: Connecting to a Wpa2 Enterprise WiFi

Thu Nov 17, 2016 8:14 pm

Pick up the phone, call your network help desk. They're paid to help you fix these sorts of issues. You've got a plain ordinary Linux system and you can't get connected, they will help.
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