NOTE: The CLAS Linux Group has provided these instructions as a courtesy to campus Linux users. The wireless service on campus is called eduroam. See the ITS article about eduroam or contact the ITS Help Desk for additional information.

Check the Requirements

• You must have a valid HawkID.
• Your laptop must have a wireless interface--either built-in or on a card--that conforms with the wireless client requirements listed on the page About the UI Wireless Service of the Information Technology Services (ITS) site.
• Any drivers necessary for your laptop's wireless interface must be installed. The drivers must provide support for WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access).

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

To configure eduroam on your Linux (or other OS device), download and run the eduroam installer tool from cat.eduroam.org  Select the big blue button that says "Click here to download your eduroam installer". Choose "University of Iowa" in the Organisation pop up window (it should be the top option). Select the "Standard" link in the "Select the user group" box. Click the big blue button that says "eduroam" and take note of where you save the installer too (typically it will save to the Downloads directory in your home directory). After downloading the installer (which is a python script), run the python installer script as follows

 python3 ~/Downloads/eduroam-linux-Standard.py

When prompted to "Add a new entry", use your "hawkid@uiowa.edu".  You'll be prompted for your hawkid password (twice).  At this point, your wireless connection to eduroam should be configured and working.

Potential Issues

As of 2024-08-13, these instructions have been tested against Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 and all have worked fine. Any comparable distribution of Linux should work. Note well, that older releases will not work (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04 does not work). The symptom of it not working is being continually prompted for your password.