Just as a preface: I think NetworkManager is great and use it almost
exclusively to connect to wired or wireless networks on my Ubuntu Edgy
Laptop.
Here's one case where it doesn't work and I hope the information I provide
can help in solving the problem:
I am unable to connect to my university's wifi network through the
NetworkManager dialogs. The icon whirls and then 60s are reached and it
disconnects for taking too long. I had a look at syslog as it was doing
this but to my untrained eye saw nothing of interest.
I can however connect with just straight wpa_supplicant and dhclient. My
school (thankfully) provided a wpa_supplicant.conf file for Linux users to
install with the instructions "After this it should all just work".
the file is as follows:
/////////////////////////////////////////
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="eduroam"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=TTLS
ca_cert="/etc/ssl/certs/soas-root-ca.pem"
anonymous_identity="@soas.ac.uk"
identity="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
password="password"
phase2="auth=PAP"
priority=5
}
///////////////////////////////
then by running the command line:
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -K -dd -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
and waiting a few seconds and then running dhclient, I'm connected to the
network.
I've tried all manner of options in NetworkManager and none seem to work.
I thought it might have something to do with the phase2 authentication (the
line being: "phase2="auth=PAP"") as I saw no-where to set that in NM.
Anyway I hope this case might help improve NetworkManager,
Best of luck,
-M. Willis Monroe
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