Howdy,
I am attempting to connect to my Uni's Wifi network which
I have previously had no issues doing. My university provided
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It is worth to note that I am running parrot linux (a debian based distro) but connectivity using this method has worked fine in the past. My issue is, when I attempt to connect to the network, using my given credentials, even after password resets, I am greeted by the message "Passwords or Encryption keys are required to access the Wifi-Network" which I assume is the equalivalent of "Incorrect credentials". However, when I attempt to log in on my phone, again using the same credentials, it works fine and I am unrestricted. (Galaxy S8)
My thoughts on this concern so far:
- Using Wifi-Share works so either my phone masks my mac address, potentially bypassing a blocked device, or mac isnt the issue
- Anon-Surf, which has a built in mac changer, does nothing in the way of mitigating the problem, making me assume it is not mac address related.
- I recently reset my internal ip for my computer on my home network in order to access a PS4 communication server type thing
- Changing my IP address on my home network could have messed something up? I'm a networking noob
I only assume mac address as sometimes I will play online CTFs and will accidentally input vectors that might get my usage limited by my universities network, of which I assume is to prevent attacks from their IP range.
After getting done with the PS4 communication server, which was locally hosted, I tried resetting my IP back to it's original value and even flushing the networking service to no avail.
Also worth nothing any other network that requires just a plain password has no issue connecting.
Final notes: If this does not belong in this thread I will gladly delete / move it. I quickly skimmed
this article and they seemed to have a similar problem, posting in the same section. I realize this is most likely going to be network specific as my phone works, but I wanted to explore every possible avenue prior to making a fool of myself in front of the IT department.
Thank you all for your time!