RTL8821 network card not working with college wifi.

[Jihakuz]

I recently changed my laptops OS over to Ubuntu 18.04.02, the only problem was Ubuntu does not have driver support for my network card (RTL8821). To get around this I installed drivers from this github repo, it worked for my home wifi. The next problem that once I got to college, the drivers could not connect with the college wifi due to it's encryption method 802.1x.

 

Any ideas how to get around this? I can provide some info as you need it but I am still pretty new to Linux, so you will probably have to guide me.

 

Thanks.

[Sychic]

do you know what wifi protocol your college is using? It should look like this:
802.11(letter(s) here)

[SenKa]

I believe that may be an issue with your driver.

 

If at all possible, and on most laptops it is, I would recommend changing the network card to something natively supported in the OS.

[Jihakuz]

2 minutes ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

I believe that may be an issue with your driver.

 

If at all possible, and on most laptops it is, I would recommend changing the network card to something natively supported in the OS.

You're right, I am pretty sure it is the driver. Any recommendations on what I should get or does it depend on the OS?

5 minutes ago, Sychic said:

do you know what wifi protocol your college is using? It should look like this:
802.11(letter(s) here)

No I don't know, it is pretty hard to get much info from the college.

[rcmaehl]

4 minutes ago, Sychic said:

do you know what wifi protocol your college is using? It should look like this:
802.11(letter(s) here)

He's referring to 802.11-Enterprise which allows you to authenticate on WiFi with your Active directory username and password. Wireless standard likely doesn't matter in this case as the card as compatible with up to 802.11ac

[rcmaehl]

2 minutes ago, Jihakuz said:

Any recommendations on what I should get or does it depend on the OS?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

[Jihakuz]

44 minutes ago, rcmaehl said:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

thanks!

 

[Jihakuz]

3 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

Now my problem is the my laptop uses an m.2 WiFi card that is Key A and there's none of those cards on the list :/

 

3 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

 

 

[wasab]

I think your school is using WPA enterprise so you need to go to the advance setting and configure it. 

[alsetema]

I have had some troubles with my network card and my university's WPA enterprise network. Try to see if you need any certificates for the network, in my case eduroam required the adequate certificate for the network, you can bypass this by checking the "no CA certificate required" (or something like that) checkbox. And of course, be sure that the username and password you are entering is correct.

 

Cheers!

[Jihakuz]

@georgezilla I know it is a late reply, but you might have wanted some conclusion or something, I don't know.

 

I did go to my admin team, and they were crap. Didn't know what was going on. I searched through the logs of what the network card was doing and it was essentially unable to connnect to the college wifi because of its encryption (802.1x). I think this was because I had used 3rd party drivers for Linux that couldn't andle this.

 

So I bought a supported card for linux, and it works fine now.

[BasicallyAMod]

at my school  you have to provide a certificate to log in.

 

here is documentation on that

https://asu.secure.force.com/kb/articles/FAQ/How-Do-I-Setup-ASU-Wireless-on-Ubuntu-Linux/?q=000014906&l=en_US&fs=Search&pn=1

 

that may help

[alsetema]

Where are you downloading the drivers from? There is a github repo maintained by the guys from aircrack-ng who have different versions of that driver. As of now the "best" version would be the 5.2.20 branch