Arch Linux Connect to Eduroam

Eduroam is an international roaming service. It enables people to connect to wifi for free at locations all around the world. It is based on WPA2 Enterprise. It is for people in research and higher education.

If you are an Arch user you probably like figuring things like this out. Unfortunately this isn’t as well documented as regular wifi network connections. The needed configuration may also vary from one organization to another.

Apparently there is a tool available from HERE that can generate an eduroam configuration for NetworkManager. I haven’t verified this.

Arch Linux Eduroam Example Config

Here is an example wpa_supplicant.conf file that is similar to what one person posted:

ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="eduroam"
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        pairwise=CCMP
        group=CCMP TKIP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="user_id@univ.edu"
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
        password="xx...xx"
}

Here is another example:

network={
    ssid="eduroam"
    scan_ssid=1
    key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
    eap=TTLS
    anonymous_identity="anonymous@ox.ac.uk"
    ca_cert="/etc/ssl/certs/AffirmTrust_Commercial.pem"
    phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
    identity="username@ox.ac.uk"
    password="password"
}