My school uses wpa2 enterprise for wifi. I can connect to it from my phone but not my laptop. When trying to connect I need to set inner authentication to none, but that is not an option in network manager. I tried using wicd but I had the same issue. I tried editing the file with the network information in it and changed the line phase2="auth=" and set that to none, but when I tried to connect it acted as if it had never tried to connect to the wifi before. I am running Debian 8 with gnome 3.
Maybe that your bug? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/1104476
Sounds an awful lot like it. The workaround seems to be to remove or comment out the linesystem-ca-cert=true
from the configuration file found in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
I tried that and nothing happened
Maybe that can help https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1330136#p1330136
Uhm what does the connection do if you don't save the passphrase?
If I try to connect it says the password was wrong but it still saves the connection. Whenever I change the line for phase 2 authentication it generates a new file and acts as if it has never connected before
Do you change it through the gui or by directly editing the file?
maybe make the file read only ( ... trying it the sledge hammer style)
What does network-manager complain about if you switch it into verbose mode?
I wont be able to try to help further until tomorrow... good luck in the meanwhile =)
I tried setting it to read only but network manager just created a new file. I have not tried going into verbose mode with network manager. Can you tell me how to do that. I will try it when I go back tomorrow. I am fairly sure it has do with the inner authentication because when I add the wifi from my Android phone it works and the only setting that isn't the same is the only for inner authentication
network-manager should, as far as I know output into syslog
I did sudo cat /var/logs/syslog | grep (SSID of network)
Sep 8 07:58:38 BobbysLaptop NetworkManager[436]: error in connection /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/[REMOVED]: invalid or missing connection property 'NMSetting8021x/802-1x.phase2-auth: 'none' is not a valid value for the property'
Sep 8 07:58:38 BobbysLaptop NetworkManager[436]: error in connection /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/[REMOVED]-b00cbd59-9016-4642-82db-a78fa8978b83: invalid or missing connection property 'NMSetting8021x/802-1x.phase2-auth: 'none' is not a valid value for the property'
Sep 8 08:04:46 BobbysLaptop NetworkManager[436]: Activation (wlan0) starting connection '[REMOVED]'
Sep 8 08:04:46 BobbysLaptop NetworkManager[436]: Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection '[REMOVED]' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Sep 8 08:04:46 BobbysLaptop NetworkManager[436]: Config: added 'ssid' value '[REMOVED]'
Sep 8 08:04:46 BobbysLaptop wpa_supplicant[920]: wlan0: Trying to associate with b2:6c:ac:5d:d1:49 (SSID='[REMOVED]' freq=2412 MHz)
Well that output always leeds me back to system-ca-cert=true/none/false and the first entry I found is from about 2009 O.o
Well someone seems to have solved it by using
system-ca-cert=false
instead of none
and someone else seems to have had success with editing
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/<ConnectionName>
and changing there
[802-1x]
eap=peap;
phase2-auth=none
password-flags=2The part about phase2-auto to none
Good luck! My google foo is used up this time, and currently I have no access to a working 802-1x wireless lan for testing it myself.