Remembering WPA Enterprise Network

At my university, the wireless network is a WPA enterprise network. Each time I want to connect, I have to enter everything in manually. How do I get it to remember the network?

Thank you both for your replies. I am trying iphitus ideia but am having trouble and the wiki doesn't have much info (not related to this issue at least).
ifconfig -a related to the wireless interface:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:D2:1A:56:35
inet6 addr: fe80::219:d2ff:fe1a:5635/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:12 dropped:1347 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:38366 (37.4 Kb) TX bytes:3727 (3.6 Kb)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x4000 Memory:d8000000-d8000fff
lsmod | grep ipw:
ipw3945 200484 0
ieee80211 30664 1 ipw3945
sudo /usr/bin/netcfg-auto-wireless eth1
:: Scanning for networks [DONE]
:: eduroam up - Configuration generation failed: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant [BUSY]
ctrl_interface_group=0
Passphrase must be 8..63 characters
sudo netcfg2 eduroam
:: eduroam up - Configuration generation failed: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant [BUSY]
ctrl_interface_group=0
Passphrase must be 8..63 characters
eduroam profile in /etc/network.d/:
CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=eth1
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="eduroam"
KEY=<censored>
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=30
I don't think this information in the profile is enough, doesn't say which WPA protocol uses, nor the user (in the WPA Enterprise case) so I believe the problem might be related to that lack of info in the profile. The wiki didn't have an example for WPA enterprise though
EDIT: Also my wpa_supplicant.conf is like the one on my first post with these aditional lines:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
Last edited by Grimn (2008-03-03 09:51:53)

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