Wireless networks

From UA Wiki

The official UA wireless networks are

• eduroam (for connecting the eduroam networks at the UA and other universities)
• UAntwerpen (for students and employees of the UA)
• UA-congres (for conferences etc.)

The links below give information on how to re-setup your wireless connection for those networks.

eduroam

eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. Like many other universities across Europe, the Universiteit Antwerpen is connected to eduroam. This means that researches from other universities can connect to the eduroam network at the UA with their credentials, and member of the UA can connect to eduroam networks around the globe, using their UA credentials.

The following configurations are hence valid for all universities associated with eduroam, particularly the UA itself.

If you are a member of another university and would like to connect to eduroam at the UA, please use the authentication procedure given to your home unversity.

Microsoft Windows

Mac OS

Linux

NetworkManager

NetworkManager configuration dialog for network eduroam.

First, make sure that you have the certificate AddTrust_External_Root.pem installed. This should be part of a generic installation and is likely to be found at /etc/ssl/certs/. Optionally, you can download the certificate at the infocenter (login required)

With this, the necessary configuration for UA members includes:

• Security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
• EAP Method: Protected EAP (PEAP)
• Anonymous identity: your UA username @ua.ac.be
• CA Certificate: /path/to/AddTrust_External_Root.pem (e.g., /etc/ssl/certs/AddTrust_External_Root.pem) On some distributions (like fedora) this may be "hidden" in a certification bundle. On Fedora 15 this is: "/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt"
• PEAP version: Version 0 (or automatic)
• Inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
• Username: your UA username (optionally @ua.ac.be appended)
• Password: your UA password

Setting the anonymous identity is not explicitly necessary to connect to eduroam at the UA, but will be required if you would like to make use of it on other universities and institutions that provide this network.

This setup is confirmed working with connections from the University of Bristol.

UAntwerpen

Microsoft Windows

Mac OS

Linux

NetworkManager

KDE's NetworkManager configuration dialog for network UAntwerpen.

The necessary configuration includes:

• Security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
• EAP Method: Protected EAP (PEAP)
• CA Certificate: /path/to/AddTrust_External_Root.pem (e.g., /etc/ssl/certs/AddTrust_External_Root.pem) On some distributions (like fedora) this may be "hidden" in a certification bundle. On Fedora 15 this is: "/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt"
• PEAP version: Version 0 (or Automatic)
• Inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
• Username: yourUaUsername
• Password: yourUaPassword
  

wpa_supplicant

Example wpa_supplicant configuration:

network={
        ssid="UAntwerpen"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="<your_ua_username>"
        password="<your_ua_password>"
        ca_cert="/usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/AddTrust_External_Root.crt"
        phase1="peaplabel=0"
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
        id_str=""
}

UA-congres

Microsoft Windows

Mac OS

Linux

NetworkManager

KDE's NetworkManager configuration dialog for network UA-congres.

To gain access to the UA-congres network, you must acquire the corresponding network password. Configuration is then as easy as setting

• Security: WPA-PSK,
• Password: yourConferencePassword.
  

External links

• eduroam