{"id":104,"date":"2008-11-07T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:01:41","slug":"eduroam-on-freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/eduroam-on-freebsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduroam on FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/itservices\/wireless\/\">Eduroam wireless network<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\">University of Kent<\/a>. There&#8217;s various guides for getting it working on Linux, but I thought I&#8217;d try on FreeBSD. It&#8217;s pretty simple.<\/p>\n<p>First create <code>\/etc\/wpa_supplicant.conf<\/code> with the following content:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>network={<br \/>\nssid=\"eduroam\"<br \/>\nproto=WPA WPA2<br \/>\nkey_mgmt=WPA-EAP<br \/>\neap=PEAP<br \/>\ngroup=TKIP<br \/>\nidentity=\"tdb@kent.ac.uk\"<br \/>\npassword=\"YourPassword\"<br \/>\n}<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then add the following to <code>\/etc\/rc.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>ifconfig_ath0=\"WPA DHCP\"<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Replacing <code>ath0<\/code> with your wireless adapter if it&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>Then start it up as follows (or reboot):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code># \/etc\/rc.d\/netif start<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can use <code>ifconfig<\/code> to confirm the link is up, and <code>ping<\/code> to test.<\/p>\n<p>For more general information about wireless networking in FreeBSD please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/doc\/en_US.ISO8859-1\/books\/handbook\/network-wireless.html\">this section of the handbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to get the Eduroam wireless network at the University of Kent to work on FreeBSD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,140,33],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-eduroam","tag-freebsd","tag-kent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}