University of Virginia: Connecting to eduroam on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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University of Virginia: Connecting to eduroam on Ubuntu 20.04

Please leave a comment or pr if anything is wrong. The entirety of this document references the existing guide: http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/compfac/faq/linux-eduroam.html

TLDR: Connect to wahoo first then follow the "Manual Setup" in the guide above

1. Connect to the "UVA WiFi Setup" network. Your web browser may ask you to go to the network login page. If you are already authenticated with netbadge, ignore this. Otherwise go ahead.
2. Follow the instructions here to connect to the unencrypted wahoo network. Specifically, click the link to "Register your device using your computer". This helps you keep the physics instructions page open without being redirected.
   • You can find your mac address by running ifconfig. Mine is the block of hex (with semicolons) next to the word "ether", under the entry "wlo1". If that's not working, google it.
   • It's a little difficult to tell, but connecting to "wahoo" also makes other steps easier, otherwise you have to switch between "UVA Guest" and "UVA WiFi Setup". I have a theory that some of the manual setup below is impossible to do on these networks because an important redirect times out, but I've not confirmed it.
3. Open the physics instructions page. Perform the manual setup to the letter. (The automated script has never worked for me).
   • To get to the settings page described in the guide, go to Ubuntu's Settings app and hit "Wi-Fi", then click on eduroam. If the authentication settings for eduroam does not appear as in the guide, click the three dots at the top of the Wi-Fi settings page and forget the eduroam network.
   • Note that the step:

   When you start, you might have to put your p12 file into the "User Certificate" field to make the other fields available. That's OK. It will be ignored later.

   is completely mandatory on Ubuntu 20.04, but the note:

   Before clicking "Save", make sure you go to the "General" tab and UNcheck the box labeled "Available to all users" (failing to do this might prevent Eduroam from working).

   seems to be totally irrelevent.
   • If you've tried and failed to connect to eduroam before (as I have many times!), you should click the three dots at the top of the Wi-Fi settings page and forget the eduroam network. Otherwise settings will get really mad.
   • Professor Tychonievich's guide recommends you change the permissions on your user cert file (look at the end).

   chmod 700 FirstnameLastnameN.p12

4. Pat yourself on the back, and smile, becuase no matter how hard it is, its better than windows :)