Eduroam at the Chemnitz University of Technology
Eduroam (Education Roaming) provides Internet access at all participating institutions worldwide with one secure WLAN (WiFi) configuration.
Eduroam Configuration
We provide configuration instructions for your operating system here.
For the configuration you already need network connectivity, other than eduroam, to access your user account details (IdM Portal). Use either a mobile data connection or one of the further wireless networks [de], e.g. tu-chemnitz.de
when you are on the Chemnitz campus.
- Download the tool for X86 systems.
- Run the program (as normal Windows user) and, if appropriate, confirm the security warnings.
(Windows 10 with Windows Defender SmartScreen: More info → Run anyway) - In your web browser the password dialog of your user account (IdM-Portal) will be opened.
- Choose an existing device entry or create a new one.
- Enter the PIN that is shown to you in the dialog box of the configuration program.
- If appropriate, confirm the certificate installation (necessary only once).
- The connection to the eduroam wireless network will be established. You may close your web browser.
You can find illustrated instructions in our blog [de].
Requirements:
- Windows service “WLAN AutoConfig” running
- Web browser installed
- Download the Python script archive.
- Decompress the archive.
(In console:tar -xf eduroam_TUC.tar
) - Run the script/configuration tool “eduroam_TUC.py”.
(In console:TUC-eduroam-config/eduroam_TUC.py
) - In your web browser the password dialog of your user account (IdM-Portal) will be opened.
- Choose an existing device entry or create a new one.
- Enter the PIN that is shown to you in the dialog box of the configuration tool.
- The configuration will be written. The connection to the eduroam wireless network may be established now.
You can find illustrated instructions in our blog [de].
Requirements to run the tool successfully:
- WLAN controlled by NetworkManager (standard for most of the Linux distributions)
- Python with Module python-dbus installed
- Web browser installed
Alternative: Usage of a generated wpa_supplicant.conf
- Open
https://idm.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de/
in a web browser and go to the management of app and device passwords page. - Choose an existing device entry or create a new one.
- The WPA supplicant configuration will be available as download option (Download configuration file for Linux (advanced)).
For Android devices the app “TUC-WLAN” cares for a correct and secure configuration of the access:
- Download the app from Play Store (use QR code), from F-Droid (search for “TUC-WLAN”) or directly from our website.
- Run the app.
- As long as the app recognizes errors within your device configuration, solve them please. You will get support for a lot of common errors.
- When all recognized errors are solved, you can start the configuration.
- Choose a name for your device. This name will be allocated for the device specific password which gets created by the app within the IdM Portal.
- Log in to the Web Trust Center with your user name and password. Subsequently, eduroam is configured automatically.
- The configuration details are shown on the status display.
for iOS from version 7 and OS X from version 10.10
- Please, open https://mytuc.org/wlan in web browser Safari on your device.
- Choose or create an app and device password of the type “WLAN” in the IdM Portal. Please note, in this step a configuration file is created, which has to be downloaded
onto your device.
- Create password and configuration file or renew existing password and download configuration
- or:
- Enter
https://idm.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de/
- Click User menu
- Click Change password
- Click Manage app and device passwords
- Add App and device password or
(Generate new Password)
- The wifi configuration file is offered for download:
- Enter
- Download this configuration profile from the IdM-Portal to your device.
- Install the profile.
- Eduroam ist configured now.
You can find illustrated instructions in our blog: for iOS [de] and for MacOS (OS X) [de].
- Please, open https://mytuc.org/wlan on your device.
- Choose or create an app and device password of the type “WLAN” in the IdM Portal. Please note, in this step a configuration file is created, which has to be downloaded
onto your device.
- Create password and configuration file or renew existing password and download configuration
- or:
- Enter
https://idm.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de/
- Click User menu
- Click Change password
- Click Manage app and device passwords
- Add App and device password or
(Generate new Password)
- The wifi configuration file is offered for download:
- Enter
- Download this configuration profile (ONC file) from the IdM-Portal to your device.
- Open the network settings on your device at chrome://network/#general.
- Install the downloaded ONC file into the device.
- Eduroam ist configured now.