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Setup eduroam on Raspberry Pi 3 🌐

Created by:​ Ivan Aguilar | iSpace Lab
Date:​ January 16, 2019
Device:​ Raspberry Pi 3
Operating System:​ Raspbian

All of these instructions are to be done on the Raspberry Pi device

  1. Open folder: /etc/network
  2. Right click file: interfaces
  3. Click Open With... -> Custom Command Line Tab -> Command line to execute: sudo leafpad -> OK
  4. Replace existing text with:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet manual
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual

wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface default inet dhcp
  1. Save file
  2. Open folder: /etc/wpa_supplicant
  3. Right click file: wpa_supplicant
  4. Click Open With... -> Custom Command Line Tab -> Command line to execute: sudo leafpad -> OK
  5. Replace existing text with:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1
country=your_country_abbreviation

network={ 
	ssid="eduroam"
	
	identity="your_login_info@institutional_email_domain"
	password="your_password"
	
	eap=TTLS 
	phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"

	pairwise=CCMP
	key_mgmt=WPA-EAP 
}

If you are at SFU:
your_country_abbreviation = CA @institutional_email_domain = @sfu.ca

leave quotes around the identity, password, ssid, and phase2

  1. Save file
  2. Reboot Raspberry Pi and try out a web browser
  3. Setup complete

Note: doing this will disable your WiFi connection to other networks and the WiFi icon on the top bar of the operating system. If you want to manually connect to other WiFi, add them to the wpa_supplicant file.

Below are default text for the “interfaces” and the wpa_supplicant files in case you want to go back.

Interfaces (/etc/network) (default):

source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

wpa_supplicant (/etc/wpa_supplicant) (default):

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

If you are at SFU:
your_country_abbreviation = CA

Additional Instructions

I based this documentation off of these sites, with some modifications to them. Might be relevant to someone who reads the documentation and if it doesn’t work. In our case (SFU) IT told me to use TTLS eap setup, which is why these other documentations didn’t work. But if the person is trying to do it in another institution our country their eap might not be TTLS and it won’t work, they would need to follow a different documentation, like one of these below, which use PEAP.

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