SecureW2 equivalent on Linux

Question

I'm studying at the HAN (Hogeschool Arnhem & Nijmegen) in the Netherlands, where we have a wireless network that is secured with SecureW2 (IEEE 802.1x).

The SecureW2 client is not available for Linux, so I'm trying to get the config right myself. On the web I found that NetworkManager should be able to handle this, but it doesn't work for me. Trying both knetworkmanager and the network widget (I'm using Kubuntu 9.04 + KDE 4.3) I entered the settings:

• Security: WPA-EAP
• TTLS
• My username and pass
• Phase 2: PAP

But it does not work. If connecting trough the widget, nothing happens when I click. When using knetworkmanager, it tries to connect but goes on forever.

How can I get this to work? Are there any logs I can try?

Answer 1

Did you try this ?

Answer 2

From Please make a linux version of securew2

Both the KNetworkManager (KDE) frontend of wpa_supplicant as well as the NetworkManager frontend (Gnome) support EAP-TTLS. Gnome does it a little bit better than KDE, but KDE can also be made to work (see this post for more information). I'm using KNetworkManager with openSUSE 11.1 every day to connect to an WPA2-Enterprise network with EAP-TTLS authentication.

Also check the link in the quoted text.

Answer 3

I got this to work by ditching knetworkmanager. Nm-applet (GNOME's network manager icon) does this well, out of the box, and works fine in KDE. It's also much better in other ways.