Eduroam

During your time at Chalmers you will have access to something called Eduroam. It is a computer network used by universities and schools across the world. Here we will walk you through how to set it up on your computer

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On Windows it is easy to connect to Eduroam. Follow these steps:

  1. Open your network menu.
  2. Click on eduroam and then Connect.
  3. Enter <cid>@chalmers.se as the username and then your CID password as the password.
  4. Click Connect.

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On MacOS there are two methods, the first one is simpler but we believe it's a newer method so if it doesn't work try the other one.

Approach 1

  1. In the wi-fi dropdown from the menu bar click on eduroam.
  2. Sign in using <cid>@chalmers.se as the username and then your CID password as the password. Click on OK.
  3. You will be asked to verify a certificate, click on continue. If prompted to put in your password or confirm with your fingerprint do that.

Approach 2

  1. Go to Eduroams homepage.
  2. Click on Click here to download your eduroam® installer.
  3. In the menu that opens, click on Chalmers University of Technology. If you don't see it you can use the search bar at the bottom.
  4. Click on eduroam®.
  5. Click on Continue.
  6. A profile will have been downloaded. Double click on it in finder, or click on it in your browsers downloads manager / the MacOS downloads folder on the dock.
  7. You will get a pop-up saying the profile has been downloaded, click OK.
  8. Open System Settings, at the top under your account name you will see a button titled Profile Downloaded, click here or navigate to it through General/Device Management
  9. Double click on the profile titled eduroam®. Click on Install.
  10. Put in your CID in the form <cid>@chalmers.se and your password for your CID. You will get another pop up requiring you to put in your computers account password.
  11. Now you will be able to connect to Eduroam.

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On Linux, there are two different approaches you can use to connect to Eduroam. The first approach should work on most distros and environments, but if not, try the second version.

Approach 1

In you networking settings, create a new Wi-Fi network. Fill in the information according to the pictures below. Pay extra attention the highlighted options. You must replace the email address to match your own CID and the password to match the one for your Chalmers email.

Netoworkmanager settings for Eduroam Netoworkmanager settings for Eduroam

Approach 2

  1. Go to Eduroams homepage.
  2. Click on Click here to download your eduroam® installer.
  3. In the menu that opens, click on Chalmers University of Technology. If you don't see it you can use the search bar at the bottom.
  4. Click on the blue eduroam® button and then on Continue to download the setup script.

Now that you have the script, we will need to install some programs that it depends on in order to run. If you want to look for them yourself, the packages are python3, python3-cryptography, and python3-dbus. Below we provide commands that will install the packages for a few common distros. Open a terminal and run the command for your distro. You might be prompted to enter your user password when running the command.

Ubuntu, Mint, Debian

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install python3 python3-cryptography python3-dbus

Fedora

dnf upgrade && sudo dnf install python3 python3-cryptography python3-dbus

Arch, Manjaro, Artix

sudo pacman -Syu && sudo pacman -S python python-dbus python-cryptography

With the dependencies installed, we can continue with setting up Eduroam.

  1. Run ~/Downloads/eduroam-linux-CUoT-Eduroam.py --gui tty to start the setup.
  2. Press !kbd[Enter].
  3. Enter <cid>@chalmers.se as your userid, where you replace <cid> with you own CID. Press !kbd[Enter].
  4. Enter the password you set for your CID followed by pressing !kbd[Enter]. Note that you will not see your password as you enter it.
  5. Enter your password followed by pressing !kbd[Enter] again.

If you entered all of your details correctly, you should now be able to connect to Eduroam.

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