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  • From: Metselaar Jasper <jasper.metselaar AT sundsvall.se>
  • To: Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>, "cat-users AT lists.geant.org" <cat-users AT lists.geant.org>
  • Subject: SV: [[cat-users]] CAT on Chromebook
  • Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 06:05:14 +0000
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Hi Stefan.

Thank you for your reply!

>> I downloaded the ONC file from cat.eduroam.org, but when I try to
>> import this file on chrome://net-internals/#chromeos doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> I click Choose File, and choose the .onc file, but nothing happens.
>> The text behind the Choose File button still says "No file chosen".

> Sor far, this is exactly correct and the behaviour is the expected one:
> the device tells you *nothing*.

Wow, that's an interesting UI. I hope Google will take a look at this at some
point. :-)

>> As it is stated that the import is silent, I checked if some settings
>> appeared in the network config, but I couldn't see anything.
>>
>> I hope someone can help me to make eduroam work on this and future
>> Chromebooks.
>>
>> (please note that this is the first time I use a Chromebook, so I
>> might be overlooking something obvious.)
>
> Well, this part isn't :-) The network should magically show up in network
> config after the invisible import has done its part.
>
> Unfortunately, even if the imported file is broken, it will also not raise
> an error message, which makes debugging hard.
>
> So I suspect your config file may have been generated incorrectly. Given
> that I have only one Chromebook and our own inst settings to test with,
> that's not very surprising even. That said, the Chrome OS module meanwhile
> has 7.359 end-user downloads and they didn't all complain, so "something"
> must
> be working :-)
>
> Can you let me know the download link to the profile in question so I can
> take a look at the file?

This would be the URL for downloading the profile:
https://cat.eduroam.org/?idp=1163&profile=2046


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