You can use your GFZ account to connect to Eduroam on the GFZ Campus and in other participating institutions and universities. This allows you access to the Internet. On GFZ Campus you are also granted access to the intranet and to central servers.
Prerequisites
To use Eduroam you have to activate this service on the Passwords & Services site on the GFZ intranet web site and set a separate password for it.
General information
Parameters to connect to Eduroam.
- Network name: eduroam
- Wireless securiry: WPA2-Enterprise
- Authentication: Protected EAP (PEAP)
- Inner authentication: EAP-MSCHAPv2
- Root certificate:USERTrust RSA Certification Authority
- Username: Your-Login@gfz-potsdam.de
- Password: Your Eduroam password
Connecting to Eduroam
Click the Wi-Fi icon in the control panel to display all available Wi-Fi networks.
Select 'eduroam' and click 'Connect'. If you do not wish to automatically connect to this Wi-Fi every time, first uncheck 'Connect automatically'.
You have to use your e-mail address as the username: Your-Login@gfz-potsdam.de.
The required password is your eduroam password.
Then click 'Connect'.
Connecting to Eduroam
Click the Wi-Fi icon in the control panel and select "eduroam".
You have to use your e-mail address as the username: Your-Login@gfz-potsdam.de.
The required password is your eduroam password.
Then click "OK" and "Continue" next.
Connecting to Eduroam
Choose the wireless network "eduroam" and click on "Connect".
Enter the following parameters.
Wireless security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: Protected EAP (PEAP)
Anonymous identity: anonymous@gfz-potsdam.de
CA certificate: USERTrust RSA Certification Authority *
PEAP version: Automatic
Inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
Username: Your-login@gfz-potsdam.de
Password: Your Eduroam Password
* Please note: The certificate is located in /etc/ssl/certs.
