Linux Wifi Setup
Describes how to set up wifi on a Linux machine
Connect to the FCPSonboard network
Open a web browser and navigate to fcps.edu
You should be redirected to a login website
Accept the terms
Select "FCPS Staff and Students"
a. You could also sign in as a guest, that just changes the password you use in a later step.
Enter your FCPS Student ID and Password
Navigate to the "Other" network devices
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Download the certificates
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Now, navigate to your network manager.
Click on the “Fairfax” wifi network in the list of networks. Enter the information in the box as shown.
Make sure to select “TLS” as the authentication type and not “TTLS”. As of somewhere around
NetworkManager
version 1.36.x (which ships by default in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Fedora 36, and probably some other major Linux distributions),NetworkManager
will fail to connect ifDomain
is not properly set toxprsscnctvm.fcps.edu
and will give NO helpful information about why.
If you are a cool person who uses
wpa_supplicant
, put this instead in your/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-<interface>.conf
a. FCPS.pem == The first CA certificate (you don't need the websense one)
b. user.crt ==
openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -out user.crt
c. user.key ==
certificate.p12
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