I need to connect to the wireless network of my job, with my notebook (My notebook is using Debian 8 with Xfce). The problem is that they have a proxy with credentials, and I have no option in the network manager to handle this, so I am unable to connect, how to solve this?
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Have you asked your IT-team to support you here? – frlan Jun 01 '16 at 18:01
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Network manager uses `wpa_supplicant` behind the scenes. You shall have a file `/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf` with several example configurations. The example configurations have comments about what kind of connectivity they use. Proxies are not possible at wireless level, either your company calls *proxy* something that is not an actual proxy (again see the comments in the WPA file); or the proxy is at TCP or HTTP level, in which case it is not Network Managers responsibility to handle it (it shall be handled at a higher level). – grochmal Jun 01 '16 at 19:52
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Well, i have this file here /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. And not have any comments, so i search on the web and found one with a lot of examples and comments, and paste in my wpa_supplicant.conf. If i set a network with the same ssid that i im connected in the file, and write some configurations, the connection in the XFCE will be affected? – Juliano Grams Jun 01 '16 at 22:55
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If you added an `SSID` with WPA authentication to the XFCE network manager and it did not appear in your `wpa_supplicant.conf` then your `wpa_suuplicant` is not using that file. You are using `wpa_supplicant` because there is no other WPA authentication daemon on any linux distro. What could be the case is that it is using a file `wpa_supplicant-
.conf`. (My only debian is headless so i cannot check, sorry). Have you cleared what the `proxy` means with your colleagues? – grochmal Jun 02 '16 at 21:18 -
Yes, i solve the problem, but now, i need to set the actual proxy to my programs (firefox, eclipse, etc...). export http_proxy only works for terminal. – Juliano Grams Jun 09 '16 at 00:12