ECE471 Using Wifi (eduroam on the pi)

You might want to get your Raspberry Pi on the network, and these days wifi is the most popular option. UMaine has finally retired the old "tempest" network that was easy to connect to, so now you're stuck trying to get things configured for eduroam.

I did manage to get a pi5 on eduroam, here are some notes. Note this may be specific to the University of Maine network. My setup might be a bit weird but hopefully it can act as a guideline. The official UMaine website for connecting to eduroam can be found here: UMaine eduroam website.

If you haven't already, run "pi-config" and enable wifi and under localization set your location to the US.
Note, in theory if you have a GUI installed you can set up things through that? By clicking on the icon in the system tray? I had a text install I updated later to a GUI and so the network manager icon was not there and I had to manually run the nm-tray app, and even then it wouldn't let me configure the network. Instead I used the "nmtui" interface instead.
You might have to create a connection, eduroam and on RPi linux at least your device is probably wlan0
Set the SSID to "eduroam"
For security pick "WPA+WPA2 enterprise"
For authentication pick "PEAP"
Sometimes it will force you to pick an "Anonymous identity". If it does, enter "anonymous@maine.edu"
You may have to download a CA cert file from the above umaine eduroam website (and oddly you might have to be on a campus network to do so). Then point the config to this "umseap.pem" file.
For PEAP version: Automatic
For Inner authentication: "MSCHAPv2"
Username: your umaine e-mail address
Password: your umaine password. NOTE if you change your password you need to change it here too or your wifi will stop working.

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