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Wpa2 is a replacement for Wpa1 and stands for Wi-Fi Protected Access II. It is a security protocol used to secure wireless networks and was introduced by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

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Netplan: Access Point setup with WPA2 authentication

I can successfully set up a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu 22.04 Server to act as an access point with netplan. It's set up as per the details in https://netplan.io/reference#properties-for-device-type-...
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Force Gnome Network Manager to use WPA2

I flashed OpenWrt on my wireless router and set it to mixed WPA2/WPA3. All of my wireless devices worked fine except one: an older ThinkPad T430u running Ubuntu 22.04. It worked before on the exact ...
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Creating a WPA3 Wi-Fi hotspot fails all the time

When I am trying to create a Wi-Fi hotspot that should offer a WPA3 Personal encryption, all CPUs are running mad for a few seconds before Ubuntu tells me that the creation of the hotspot failed. ...
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How to disable WPA1 security and keep only WPA2-AES wifi hotspot on Ubuntu 18.04

WPA1 is not secure I want to keep only WPA2-AES. WHen I run nmcli device wifi list I get message below: IN-USE SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY * na Infra 1 0 Mbit/...
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How can I automatically connect to a WPA/WPA2 Enterprise without having the CA certificate beforehand?

My school has a WPA/WPA2 Enterprise network. It has a CA certificate, which on my iPhone I am prompted to trust, while on my Macbook it was automatically trusted when I entered my username and ...
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WPA Enterprise (PEAP - MSCHAPv2) on Ubuntu 18.04

As many of us know, wpa_supplicant has a bug that afflicts the wpa-enterprise (PEAP - MSCHAPv2) to disconnect frequently. In my experience the wifi went down and retried to reconnect randomly making ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 cannot connect to UniFi Wi-Fi access points

I can connect to any Wi-Fi networks except for my company corporate Wi-Fi (using UniFi access points). Running Ubuntu 19.10, wpasupplicant 2.9-1ubuntu2. Wi-Fi chip: Broadcom BCM4350 I tried with a TP-...
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Can I enable WPA2 HotSpot Encryption?

My Situation I'm running the latest Ubuntu 18.04 and I'm capable of opening a WEP encrypted hotspot, but for security reasons I'd like to avoid WEP and use WPA2 instead. Needless to say, opening nm-...
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How do I connect to WPA2 Enterprise wireless networks on 18.04 without breaking regular wireless connections?

I'm running 18.04 and need to connect my laptop to a WPA2 Enterprise network at my school that I'm fairly sure uses MSCHAPV2 with PEAP and no CA certificate. When I connect with the credentials that ...
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WPA2 Enterprise EAP-TLS connect button grayed out

I'm trying to connect to a WPA2 Enterprise wifi that I've setup. I can successfully connect using PEAP using just username and password, but when I try to connect with 802.1x certificates only (EAP-...
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Cannot connect to my hostel WPA2-EAP wifi network [duplicate]

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.1 x86_64 My wifi card is Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n I got my wifi working by installing bcmwl-kernel-source I can connect to other networks on ubuntu (WPA2-PSK ...
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Connect to WPA2 enterprise at College using wicd on Linux

I'm having trouble connecting to my College Wi-fi network with Ubuntu 17.10 Network Manager. I know it is not the best manager that exist (could be the worst lol), but I'm not able to connect to that ...
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Unable to connect to a specific wifi network (WPA2 Enterprise)

My computer is able to connect to other networks, but for some reason I am unable to connect to a specific one (gives bad password error). I am using Wicd Network Manager. I think it might be a ...
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DHCP lease expires on WPA2 Enterprise network (UPC Wi-free)

I'm often connecting to a popular network of hotspots created by my ISP (UPC's Wi-free, like Fon). It's a WPA2 enterprise network with MSCHAPv2 auth. It used to work fine. Lately, however, I have ...
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Suddenly connection via wpa_supplicant fails without obvious reason

Straight forward wifi client to infra AP connectivity by using wpa_supplicant (network-manager is not installed) wpa_cli -iwlan0 add_network 1 wpa_cli -iwlan0 set_network 1 ssid '"myssid"' ...
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Combining Certs Together? Ubuntu 16.04?

Is there anyway I can combine certificates together? I went to my Universities IT Help Desk about not being able to connect to their WPA2 Enterprise Wifi and they handed me 4 Certs Intermediate 1.crt,...
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PEAP WiFi authentication issues [duplicate]

I've looked at similar posts on this topic but nothing so far is working. Unfortunately I can connect to my Colleges Guest WIFI but not the actual WiFi. The school is running security: WPA & WPA2 ...
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Can't connect to WPA2 Enterprise PEAP network

I know there are about a dozen other questions like this, but so far none have helped me. My school uses a WPA2 Enterprise PEAP/MSCHAPv2 network without a cert(which I determined from a windows ...
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Issues Connecting to University WPA2 Enterprise Network

I am running Ubuntu 17.04 with the Gnome desktop and gnome network manager. I can connect just fine to my WPA2 network at home, as well as any other network that uses WEP, WPA, or WPA2. I can't ...
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Which wifi security setting is correct? [closed]

I have six choices on my HP laptop WiFi security tab. How do I know which one to choose? Which is best?
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Hotspot upgrade to wpa2

I use my notebook as a hotspot(through a wired connection), but if i want to change te security setting. The only 2 options i get is WEP or WEP sentence. and thats not enough to connect a windows ...
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WPA PEAP connection failure

I'm trying to connect my HP laptop from Kububtu 16.04 to a WPA PEAP WiFi connection. It either gets stuck on "configuring interface" or keeps repeatedly asking me for the password. Now, I have tried ...
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PEAP WPA disconnects

I'm using ubuntu 14.04 and everytime i connect to my university's PEAP/WPA2 wifi, it disconnects immediately. system-ca-cert=true was not present inside the conf file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-...
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Can't connect to WPA Enterprise wifi after upgrading from 15.10 to 16.04

After upgrading from 15.10 to 16.04, I can't connect to my university's wifi (eduroam), which uses WPA2 Enterprise security. I'm certain the passwords and settings are all correct, and I had no ...
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ubuntu 14.04: cannot connect to WiFi using TLS and WPA2 Enterprise with certificate

After the latest updates to my Ubuntu 14.04 I can no longer connect to corporate WiFi using TLS and WPA2 Enterprise with certificate. I did some research, and this bug (for Ubuntu 15.04) is the ...
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Can't connect to wpa2-enterprise networks like eduroam with certificate in 15.10

With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I had no problem connecting to the different networks of my university, for example eduroam and others that use the same configuration. The configuration is the following: SSID: ...
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Can't connect to WiFI after upgrade to 15.10, aka dreaded WPA2 Enterprise/PEAP nightmare

Cannot connect to my school's WiFi network after an upgrade to Kubuntu 15.10 WPA2 Enterprise PEAP no certificate Network manager keeps asking for password (even though it has been supplied), but ...
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After upgrade to 15.10 Wifi to a corporate network (WPA2) is not working anymore

Last Friday I updated to Ubuntu 15.10. At that moment I was connected to a corporate network with Wifi. After upgrade it is not working anymore. Configuration for the wifi connection: Security: WPA &...
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Tunneled TLS WI-FI connection on Ubuntu 15.04 does not work

I am trying to connect to a Wi-Fi connection on Ubuntu 15.04. The connection uses WPA & WPA2 Enterprise, Tunneled TLS authentication, MSCHAPv2 as Inner authentication. I was able to connect with ...
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Wireless stops working soon after computer start when using WPA2 encryption

I'm having a weird problem with my computer where my wifi stops working some time after my computer starts up. The only way to get it working again is to restart my computer. I know the problem is not ...
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WPA2 Enterprise with TTLS and PAP on ubuntu-touch

I am tyring to connect to a WPA2 enterprise wireless network (not eduroam) using my ubuntuphone. Under settings I can enter all the information (as before in android) but the button Connect stays ...
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Wifi is frequently disconnecting

The Wifi is frequently disconnecting in Ubuntu 15.04. My Wireless interface of Ubuntu is RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe When wifi is disconnected, on iwconfig I got the following eth0 no ...
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how to connect to a wifi (wpa/wpa2) in ubuntu server 14.04 [duplicate]

I just isntalle ubuntu server 14.04.2, in the installation process i could easily choose the network name from a list and typed the password. After the installation i saw that Im not connected to the ...
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Get Wifi Password Into Ubuntu Touch

So tonight I flashed my Nexus 7 with Ubuntu Touch, however I'm having an issue. My wireless is protected with a 63 character WPA2 password. Whenever I try typing it in manually and hit "Connect" ...
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Creating a WPA2 Enterprise Connection On Ubuntu Touch

I've recently flashed ubuntu touch onto a nexus 7. Its great, but i can't get it to connect to the WPA2 Enterprise network that is the main source of internet in my university (specifically eduroam). ...
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WPA2-Personal Wireless issues

I've been having a major struggle getting my machine connected to my personal network at home. Here is my current setup: I have a Lenovo5536 running Ubuntu server 14.04. I cannot use Ethernet to ...
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Unable to connect to my college WPA enterprise network

I moved from Windows 8 to Ubuntu 14.04 last week. I could able to connect to my Internet from my home. But, when I tried to connect to college network, I'm repeatedly asked for either Certificate and ...
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Setting up wireless (WPA2) on ubuntu server 14.04

To start off with, I'm really new to using linux so, if possible, be descriptive in your responses. I really want to learn but don't have a big knowledge-base on the subject. I'm sorry if I missed to ...
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Repeated 'authentication required' for wifi

I recently upgraded to 14.04 and over the last few days, I'm having frustrating problems while connecting to my home wifi network, one I've been connecting to without a problem (with earlier Ubuntu ...
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Xubuntu 12.10 wifi won't connect to wpa2 enterprise network

I have dual boot win7 and Xubuntu 12.10. The wifi works perfectly in win7, and in Xubuntu except for Wpa2 enterprise encrypted network. I had followed the settings for ca-certificate and other specs ...
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Cannot connect using wpa_supplicant

I have set up a usb wifi dongle ( Ralink 148f:7601 ) and now I want to connect with it to my router. I am using the following commands : $ wpa_passphrase "SSID" "password" then copy the psk I get ...
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What are the command-line alternatives to Network Manager (nm-cli), Wicd (wicd-curses), wpa_supplicant for managing wireless? [closed]

OK, I know that I am crossing out the most popular choices out there, but there is a reason for that. I am working on a BeagleBone Black running an ultra light version of Ubuntu 13.04 and I currently ...
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Wireless (WPA2) keeps asking for password

I am on Ubuntu 14.04 (i686). I read that there is one or more reported bugs related to this issue. I do not know if they are fixed as they appear to be in 11.10. Here is HW info and what I have ...
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How do i connect to a hidden wifi network in kubuntu 13.10?

I just installed Kubuntu 13.10 on a laptop. I was trying to connect to a hidden Wi-Fi network with WPA2 Security and I noticed there is no way to connect to it from the Network Manager. I can't ...
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How do I connect to a WiFi network using wicd?

I am not able to connect to a WiFi network using wicd. My wicd log file is as http://paste.ubuntu.com/6423667/ The configuration I must use is as shown here -> http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ithelpcentral/...
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How do I configure Ubuntu Server to access a WPA2 Enterprise WiFi Access Point?

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 server and would like to be able to access the WiFi in my university using these setting. I have searched through numerous posts and found several configurations, none of ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64bit Can't connect to WPA2 Personal WiFi

Recently moved back to Ubuntu from Mint and discovered that Ubuntu doesn't want to connect to my wifi. It just keeps trying and trying, asking for password time after time $ sudo lspci -vv -s 02:00.0 ...
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Unable to connect to WPA2 Personal

Today I've installed a new Asus RT-N10E router, as I switched from DSL to a cable ISP. Honestly, I can't recall which security settings I used on the previous one. Thing is, that's I want it to be ...
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Unable to connect to secured wi-fi from Nexus 7 running Ubuntu Touch 13.04

I have put Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 7, using MultiROM. But I am unable to connect my Ubuntu Touch tablet to my home wi-fi (WPA2 Personal). After I type in the password and click OK, it shows the list ...
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How can I fix my WPA-EAP certificate problem?

I'm trying to connect my school's WiFi which has WPA-EAP. Everything else can connect to it except my ubuntu machine. I can connect on my HTC ONE X Android, OS X, Windows XP & 7, and iOS devices. ...
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