Hi,
I configured WPA with Network-Manager, exactly as described in the link
you gave me. "eduroam" does not work with Jessie and the Intel Centrino
Wireless-N 2230 Wifi card, but it works with both Wheezy and Jessie for
the Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN" Wifi card - everything
configured with Network-Manager. Furthermore, "eduroam" works for the
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 Wifi card and Ubuntu 14.04. The problem
seems to be related to the Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 card and maybe
the Realtek firmware. I have not yet tried the manual configuration of
wpa_supplicant.conf.
What do you think about this?
Best regards,
François
On 01/29/2015 12:38 AM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
Hi
On 2015-01-28, François P. Rotzinger wrote:
Hi,
Many thanks for the detailed answer!
WPA Enterprise does not work for the full Jessie (amd64) OS (installed
on a fast USB stick). I removed these WPA Enterprise settings and
reconfigured them again without success twice. Unsecured Wifi
connections can always be established, but not the (highly) secured WPA
ones. Only the Gnome desktop is installed.
You didn't actually specify how you configured your system for
IEEE8021X. From these words I can only assume that you might have
used GNOME and network-manager (and I don't actually use
network-manager myself). However this howto does look sane:
http://epnet.epfl.ch/files/content/sites/network/files/Download/WIFI/linux_en.pdf
In particular the alternative configuration method via
wpa_supplicant.conf should work, but the chapter about
network-manager appears to be correct as well.
Maybe, I messed up the system
by first installing the wrong firmware (ipw2x00) and subsequently the
iwlwifi one.
[...]
The firmware for both ipw2x00 and iwlagn/ iwlwifi are co-installable,
you just need to make sure to have the correct one - but there's no
problem with having any other firmware installed at the same time.
Unfortunately Intel made a rather unfortunate choice by calling some
of their modern wlan cards "Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230", as this
is indeed quite easy to mix up with ipw2x00 (which only covers
IPW2100B, IPW2200BG and IPW2915ABG, there is no similarity between
these old devices with externally acquired IP and Intel's modern,
self-designed, chipsets covered by iwlwifi).
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Post-scriptum: I wouldn't be surprised if wheezy wouldn't work with
IEEE8021X (and eduroam in particular), but jessie
should work fine.
--
François P. Rotzinger
Privat-docent (lecturer)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques (ISIC)
Station 6
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
