Complicated Wireless School Network with CA certificate that I can't seem to get working

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I am trying to connect to my college network with openSUSE 13.1.
I am a very new to linux and am trying to get more into it to help with programming and design and such.

Anyway, I am given the download of the PEM file which I moved to etc/pti/trust/achors which is what I was told to do in a tutorial. I then added it to my ca certificates using terminal.

I entered as much of the given information as I could and it didn’t work. I also imported the .pem certificate file on the actual wireless setup window.

This is the information i have been given to set the network up manually:

**Wireless name (SSID):
Security type: **WPA2-Enterprise
**Encryption type: **EAP-TLS (or TLS)
**Root CA Certificate(s):**CA Certificate Signing Authority
**Server Name: **my school server name
**Client Certificate: **Your Certificate
**Username: **school.email@school.edu

How can I get this to work on my system? I want to install Octave GUI next, and I need the internet for that.

2

Sorry, but you did not explain what you used to configure your network device. That is normally done using YaST > Network Devices > Network Settings. Did you use that?

3

Sorry, I am pretty new. I have gnome. I just went to settings > network > wi-fi > network name

Then a "network authentication came up with
Authentication
Anonymous Identity
Subject
CA Certificate
Inner Authentication
Username
Password

4

Although I don’t use Gnome, in general Network Manager is generally recommended for setting up wireless across all Desktops.
Depending on how new you are to openSUSE, do you know how to do this in YAST?

Also, if the guide you’re following to install the PEM is available online, I’d recommend you post the URL. I suspect you’ll want to put it in a different location.

If you do so, then the configuration settings you list should all be pretty much self-evident when you configure a Network Connection.

TSU

5

I tried going though the yast network manager and it had even less options for a network than did the wi-fi setup on gnome.

There was no place to do any CA certificate or anything at all really.

6

Network Manager is a cross-desktop network connections manager that has nothing to do with YAST, although YAST is where you would switch between using Wicked (The current native network manager) and Network Manager at

YAST > Network Devices > leftmost tab

By default a new install will use Wicked to manage network connections. Although Network Manager is installed, it not used unless you make the switch in the above location.

TSU