Hi people! 👋 I was working with Raspberry Pi lately and was trying to connect it to eduroam. If you are not familiar with eduroam, it is a service used by most universities to provide Wifi on their campuses. It uses Enterprise WPA and Raspberry Pi does not connect to it automatically out of the box.

I actually found these instructions on a different website but that website is down now. I am putting these instructions here for all of you who might be stuck in the same situation.

Raspberry Pi uses wpa-supplicant to connect to the wifi. wpa-supplicant has a wpa_supplicant.confconfiguration file where you can manually add information about an access point which you want your Pi to connect to. We will update this wpa_supplicant.conf file to add information about eduroam so that whenever our Pi gets signals from eduroam, it automatically connects to it.

Step 1:

Let’s edit the wpa_supplicant.conf file. Open up the terminal on your Raspberry Pi and type the following command (without the $):

$ sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

This will open up nano (text editor) to allow you to edit the file. Now paste in the following text in the file:

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=us

network={
        ssid="eduroam"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="yourDetails@yourSchool.edu"
        password="yourpassword"
        phase1="peaplabel=0"
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
}

Change the identity and password to your username and password which you normally use to connect to eduroam on your laptop/phone.

Now save the file and close nano. You can do that by pressing Ctrl+x and then pressing Y.

Step 2:

Now we need to tell our Pi to reload the configuration file. To do that type the following command in your terminal on the Pi:

$ sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Your Pi will either connect to eduroam at this point or it might need a reboot to make things work. If it doesn’t connect, reboot your Pi and it should automatically connect to eduroam on next run.

I hope this guide was useful for you all. Best of luck! And if you have any questions/comments/concerns please email me! My email is in the footer of this page 😄.