[TriLUG] WIFI EAP-TTLS connection issue

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

Not sure this would fix your wifi issue (it might), during the transition
from Windows, the Linux Mint distro might be smoother. Mint is based on
Ubuntu but it is the most widely downloaded on distrowatch because the
desktop is straight forward simple and a lot of things just work.

I tell folks, I think it would be easier to transition from Windows XP to
Linux Mint than it would from XP to Vista or 7.
On Sep 4, 2015 10:39 AM, "Chris Bickhaus via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> So my grand plan to move my wife to Linux is hanging in the balance right
> now, and, as a relative newbie, I could use some help.  Given the privacy
> issues, etc. with Windows 10, my wife was more than willing to try Ubuntu
> over Windows 10.  I was able to get Citrix, etc. running for her work, and
> I thought the laptop was ready to go.  Then she takes it to work, tries to
> connect to the wifi and can't.  The wifi network is using EAP-TTLS for
> authentication without a certificate.  When trying to connect, my wife is
> greeted with a message telling her that no certificate authority
> certificate has been chosen.  If she clicks ignore, the prompt disappears,
> but she is not able to connect.  She has confirmed with IT that they are
> not using a certificate, but that is as far as she got.  She was told that
> Linux is a highly customizable OS and, as a result, they offer no support
> for it.
>
> My wife is running Ubuntu 14.04.3 with the 3.19 kernel.  The
> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections file for the SSID is as follows:
>
> [ipv6]
> method=auto
>
> [connection]
> id=(redacted)
> uuid=(redacted)
> type=802-11-wireless
>
> [802-11-wireless-security]
> key-mgmt=wpa-eap
> auth-alg=open
>
> [802-11-wireless]
> ssid=clubs
> mode=infrastructure
> mac-address=(redacted)
> security=802-11-wireless-security
>
> [802-1x]
> eap=ttls;
> identity=(redacted)
> phase2-auth=chap
> password-flags=1
>
> [ipv4]
> method=auto
>
> Has anyone run into a similar issue and been able to work it out?  I found
> a few somewhat relevant threads on askubuntu, etc. that talked about
> eliminating the line system-ca-cert=true, but that line is not present in
> the file (supposedly a bug surrounding this very issue has been fixed for
> 14.04).  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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