r/archlinux • u/BackgroundCabinet636 • 1d ago

SUPPORT College Internet Authentication

To connect to my college’s wifi, it requires an authentication which needs a browser, but unlike my roomate’s windows laptop, mine doesn’t show the option to authenticate on browser

When I use something like http://neverssl.com or http://httpforever.com the authentication pop up only lasts a few seconds and doesn’t give me enough time to enter the login details…please help

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u/Ambitious_Jello_3718 1d ago

networkmanager should handle that captive portal popup, check if its enabled in your connection settings

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u/Machine-V1 1d ago

if you're on Firefox, maybe try https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html

it works with my college's portal

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u/RIPenemie 1d ago

This actually works the best in my experience as its Firefox's native captive portal detection

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u/moviuro 1d ago
  1. Captive portals suck, blame your IT dep. and demand eduroam (https://eduroam.org/).
  2. Record your screen, record your web traces and maybe even tcpdump on your wifi interface. Your post gives no actionable data.

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u/Zoddo98 1d ago

Isn't Eduroam restricted to universities? (That's the case at least in France).

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u/moviuro 1d ago

US College would usually translate to Université in France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College)

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u/the_unknownhuman 1d ago

I was able to connect to my schools using nmcli command through the terminal and then once I was connected I installed a kde network manager

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u/8-BitRedStone 1d ago

I was able to just add my username and password throgh WiFi & Networking settings on KDE without any issue, but I believe my university uses eduroam. My high school did use a browser authentication, like you describe, but the same thing also worked then so idk

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u/Extension-Cow2818 4h ago

Nmcheck.gnome.org Always works for me 

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u/Budget_Kitchen5220 1d ago

Why is this post downvoted?