University Wifi Connectivity issues

Bazzite
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Hi, so I’ve been using Bazzite as my primary driver for the past 8 months or so, and it seems to be unable to connect to my university wifi. My university uses both edu and Mschapv2 for it’s peap network, and I have been unable to connect to it after my wifi change.

I’ve followed the steps to help try to connect to wifi from these posts:

and I’ve followed a guide for using it from a friend of mine who used to use fedora 41 kinoite, but recently switched to arch. Heres his step by step guide:

  1. Open up the openssl.conf file

In [provider_sect] add:
default = default_sect
legacy = legacy_sect

  1. Get those two sections as follows:
    [default_sect]
    activate = 1
    Options = UnsafeLegacyRenegotiation
    CipherString = DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=0

[legacy_sect]
activate = 1
Options = UnsafeLegacyRenegotiation
CipherString = DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=0

  1. Save changes to /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf as root

  2. nmcli if using Network Manager (which I think Fedora does use)
    nmcli connection edit ttuNet (after you put in your credentials and connection settings in the GUI or whatever else (like NM connection editor))

  3. set 802-1x.phase1-auth flags 32 (I was unable to do this step, and I don’t understand why)

  4. save

  5. activate [optional]

  6. quit [if needed or 8 not done]

And none of these have seemingly worked. Am I just messing something up, or is this and issue with bazzite that’ll make me have to switch to a different distro?

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For connecting to peap / mschapv2 wifi I also do the following which has worked for me. editing /etc/pki/tls/openssl.d/pkcs11-provider.conf
and uncomment the line with “pkcs11-module-load-behavior = early”

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This worked like a charm. I used that and this fix
(eduroam connection fix · GitHub)
to get it to work. I’ve been struggling with this for a month now trying to search for answers while dealing with homework, so genuinely thank you.

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