This tool should probably work on Ubuntu 20.04 (Netplan)

[smorad]

Issue type

• Questions about the eduroamCAT or its usage should be sent to the users mailing list.

• Defect - Crash/memory corruption.

• Defect - Non-compliance with a standards document or incorrect OS API usage.

• Defect - Unexpected behaviour (obvious or has been verified by a project member).

• New feature request.

Defect/Feature description

Netplan, the default network manager for Ubuntu 20.04 is not supported by the tool at cat.eduroam.org. There is some error about wpa_supplicant when attempting to use the tool.

How to reproduce issue

Run the python script on Ubuntu 20.04

Detail of issue

Netplan config is pretty similar to the one used by wpa_supplicant. See https://gist.github.com/smorad/d9df55c562d0e95cf54507ec91364f11#file-setup-sh-L33 for how I manually converted from wpa_supplicant to netplan format.

[Lukas-UAUX]

On Ubuntu Desktop netplan is only configured to use NetworkManager as renderer and this is what the tool configures via dbus. Creating a wpa_supplicant.conf is just a fallback if the NetworkManager method fails. I think there is no issue here...

[twoln]

The python tool is actually going to be replaced with a bash script which uses nmclii instead of talking via dbus. We did have the case where this script worked fine on Ubuntu 20.4, where the python version failed. This would require a closer look, of course.
The bash script is actually available for downloads but obly for institution admins, as it is still considered a beta.

[Lukas-UAUX]

Then maybe my new request #264 comes at the perfect timing ;-)