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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <address@concealed>]

W dniu 02.01.2020 o 20:53, Hunter Fuller pisze:
> Thanks Tomasz, my replies are inline.
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:49 PM Tomasz Wolniewicz <address@concealed> wrote:
>>  this is the new CAT feature. The eduroam profile is now installed under 
>> the profile name of "eduroam®". netsh fpr some reason does not print the 
>> name properly and shows it as eduroamR. You can delete the profile by 
>> giving it the real name or by using the Windows WiFi settings GUI and 
>> forgeting selected profiles from there.
> Pasting the trademark character does not work either, I get the same 
> message.
>
> PS C:\Users\hf0002> netsh wlan delete profile name="eduroam® via Passpoint"
> Profile "eduroamr via Passpoint" is not found on any interface.
Hmm, this works on my Windows, but also my Windows shows the trademark
character as capital R and not lowercase, so there seem to some strange
differences. This sounds like bad news since CAT deletes profiles during
reinstallation using exactly netsh commands, so your findings might
indicate that it might fail.
>
> Also, the Windows Wi-Fi settings GUI seems to have been removed. I
> remember there was something we could use in Explorer to delete
> wireless networks, but in the latest Windows 10 update this is gone.

What happens if you go via: Settings->Network&Internet->Wi-Fi and then
select Manage known networks like here:

https://www.top-password.com/blog/tag/manage-known-networks-windows-10/

If this does not work then there seems to be something serious wrong
with your Windows, I think.

>
> If I forget the network using the notification area icon instead, the
> Passpoint profile remains.
>
>>   The wifi selection GUI should show eduroam as eduroam®.
> The selection from the notification area still shows "eduroam" which
> is also the SSID we are broadcasting.
This is something that seems to be a bit unstable in Windows. Sometimes
the profile name and sometimes the SSID is shown. When you are actually
connected, I beleve that th profile name is always shown, but this is a
bit late.
>
>> The "eduroam® via Passpoint" profile is a Hotspot 2.0 profile which gets 
>> installed in anticipation of the time when we may have partner operators 
>> who would be willing to carry eduroam traffic but do not want to broadcast 
>> the eduroam SSID. Such operators would just need to broadcast the eduroam 
>> Hotspot 2.0 identifier and this second profile will recognise it and 
>> attempt connection. All authentication would still go the same way, i.e. 
>> via the home IdP, therefore all security will be preserved. Still we 
>> decided that it should be signalled to the user that this is eduroam 
>> partner network and not the native eduroam one and the profile name is the 
>> way to do that.
> I think I understand. Does this mean that this profile is a harmless
> supplement to the "eduroam" profile and should not affect the
> connection? If so, I won't worry about it, although I'd really rather
> prefer that we could delete it, for a true clean reinstall of CAT.

A reinstall of CAT should delete the profile before reinstalling it. You
might try to run CAT from command-line with -DEBUG=4 option. This should
show all executed steps and hopefully also exit status of each of them.

Tomasz



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