A Blog by Tim Bishop

We use the Eduroam wireless network at the University of Kent. There’s various guides for getting it working on Linux, but I thought I’d try on FreeBSD. It’s pretty simple.

First create /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf with the following content:

network={
ssid="eduroam"
proto=WPA WPA2
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=PEAP
group=TKIP
identity="tdb@kent.ac.uk"
password="YourPassword"
}

Then add the following to /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"

Replacing ath0 with your wireless adapter if it’s different.

Then start it up as follows (or reboot):

# /etc/rc.d/netif start

You can use ifconfig to confirm the link is up, and ping to test.

For more general information about wireless networking in FreeBSD please see this section of the handbook.

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Tags: eduroam, FreeBSD, kent

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