{"id":1064,"date":"2012-02-15T22:37:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2012-02-16T22:58:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:58:52","slug":"uom-wi-fi-on-linux-kubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2012\/uom-wi-fi-on-linux-kubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"UoM Wi-Fi on Linux (Kubuntu)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long awaited Wi-Fi at The University of Mauritius has been officially released since 2 weeks i think. It is a really good move.<\/p>\n

As for me, i was concerned whether it would work on linux operating systems. I’ve completed switched to Kubuntu since some time now.<\/p>\n

I tried the procedure on https:\/\/mysites.uom.ac.mu\/wifi\/. I managed to connect to\u00a0wifiprovisioning <\/em>successfully<\/p>\n

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But when i open Firefox and when to google.com. It would redirect to some to some page in “uom-wifi-ca.uomwifi.local” but it would stop there.\u00a0It was supposed to ask me a username and password and give me a certificate.<\/p>\n

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The Solution?<\/strong><\/span>
\nI booted on Windows 7. Tried connecting to wifiprovisioning. Downloaded the certificate and saved it on my hard-disk. The file name is “certnew.cer”. I switched to Kubuntu again.<\/p>\n

I tried connecting to uomstudent<\/em> directly. It asked for some security fields. I loaded the certificate i downloaded from Windows 7 there. The window should appear like this at the end:-<\/p>\n

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Connected! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

The procedure is a PITA for someone who is not an IT guy. I managed to connect after lots of trials and errors. I would be very cool to officially support Linux OSes. Anyways, i am very happy i managed to connect my Kubuntu. I thought it would have been impossible for a Linux device to ever connect (despite having to download the certificate using a windows device). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The long awaited Wi-Fi at The University of Mauritius has been officially released since 2 weeks i think. It is a really good move. As for me, i was concerned whether it would work on linux operating systems. I’ve completed switched to Kubuntu since some time now. I tried the procedure on https:\/\/mysites.uom.ac.mu\/wifi\/. I managed … Continue reading UoM Wi-Fi on Linux (Kubuntu)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,61,110,128],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kubuntu","tag-linux","tag-uom","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}