A netctl profile for ETH Zurich

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ETH Zurich offers multiple wireless networks around campus. Our local IT people drilled into me that I should prefer to use the eth-5 SSID whenever possible. Obviously I had to figure out a way to support this profile for netctl. If you count yourself among the few, the happy few, the band of users if this fine piece of software, here is what you have to do:

• Create a new file /etc/netctl/WiFi_eth5
• Paste the following file, while taking care to replace $USER with your ETH username and $PASSWORD with your ETH network password (this is not your regular login password; I am talking about the other one), and $INTERFACE with the WiFi interface, e.g. wlp4s0
• Activate the new profile with netctl start WiFi_eth5

Description='ETH'
Interface='$INTERFACE'
Connection='wireless'
IP='dhcp'
ESSID='eth-5'
Security='wpa-configsection'
WPAConfigSection=(
  'ssid="eth-5"'
        'key_mgmt=WPA-EAP'
  'eap=PEAP'
  'proto=WPA RSN'
  'identity="$USER"'
  'password="$PASSWORD"'
  'phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"'
)

Happy surfing, until next time!