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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Hi,
anyway, thanks for dokumenting, works great for me on PC-BSD around german
universities and saved hourse of testing around.
I suppose it was largely an exercise in documenting it 🙂
Old news. I had that working happily quite some time ago.
🙂