How to get a Raspberry pi to use WiFi to connect to eduroam on a (UK) University Network

This is based on a tutorial from the University of Southampton (YouTube)

To enable eduroam

Open a terminal and type;

sudo leafpad /etc/network/interfaces

This will open the interfaces file in leafpad, edit this file to look something like below where we have set wlan0 to use wpa_supplicant

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)

# Please note that this file is written to be used with dhcpcd

# For static IP, consult /etc/dhcpcd.conf and ‘man dhcpcd.conf’

# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:

source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet manual

wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface default inet dhcp

Next, in a terminal type;

sudo leafpad /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Edit this file as below

country=GB

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev

update_config=1

network={

identity=”username@stir.ac.uk”

password=”your_network_password”

eap=PEAP

phase2=”auth=MSCHAPV2″

ssid=”eduroam”

pairwise=CCMP

key_mgmt=WPA-EAP

}

Reboot the pi and check that wifi is working and you’re connected via eduroam