How to connect to the eduroam Wi-Fi network on Linux

Introduction

eduroam, short for “education roaming,” is a secure, global Wi-Fi access service designed for the international research and education community. It enables students, researchers, and staff to obtain internet connectivity across campus and at other participating institutions worldwide, simply by using their home institution’s login credentials.

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Last revised: 25/04/24

How to connect to eduroam on Linux

The following instructions were created using the Linux Ubuntu distribution. It should be possible to work out the correct settings for other Linux distributions using the settings below.

Before proceeding with the manual setup guide on this page, you may wish to try the automated tool available at https://cat.eduroam.org

Manual setup

• Click the Network icon in the top right corner, select Wi-Fi and then click Select Network.

• In the Wi-Fi Network list select eduroam.

• Configure network security with the following settings:
  

  Wireless Security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
  Authentication: Protected EAP (PEAP)
  Anonymous Identity: <leave blank>
  CA Certificate: <see notes below>
  PEAP version: Automatic
  Inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
  Username: enter your University of Warwick (UoW) usercode in the format u1234567@warwick.ac.uk
  Password: your UoW account password

• Under the CA Certificate field, navigate to the location of your certificate store.
  In Linux Ubuntu and Linux Mint this is located in /etc/ssl/certs and may be different for other flavours of Linux. Select the “Comodo_AAA_Services_root.pem” certificate.

• Verify the settings and then click Connect.
  
  The connection will now be negotiated, followed by a Connected message.