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[Martin Pauly <pauly AT hrz.uni-marburg.de>]

Hello,

On 07.01.23 11:23, ALVARO LECANDA CARO (via cat-users Mailing List) wrote:
> > Buenos días,
> > Les escribo porque estoy teniendo problemas para instalar el perfil en mi 
> > ordenador para utilizar la red eduroam. Cuando llego al último paso de 
> > instalar el perfil en mi dispositivo me aparece lo que os adjunto a 
> > continuación.
> > Lo estoy realizando porque me he cambiado a un nuevo ordenador. Tengo un mac 
> > OS. He realizado los pasos anteriormente en otros dispositivos, por lo que no 
> > creo que sea un error mío...
> > De hecho, he intentado borrar el perfil que tenía en mi móvil y lo he 
> > instalado de nuevo, y ahí no me ha surgido ningún problema.
> >
> > Espero su respuesta,
> > Un saludo,
> > Álvaro Lecanda Caro
> > Estudiante Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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>  but maybe Apple changed something that now requires the network interface to 
> be enabled… what macOS version is your computer running?
> Another possible (and probably far-fetched) guess is that your university 
> tries to install a “wired” profile,

Most probably, this is true. This effect was discussed in detail a year ago 
on this list.
Some of the more recent macOS versions obiously lack a certain internal data 
structure by default which represents a wired interface.
Instead, this "interface" is created the first time the macOS kernel 
recognizes a suitable wired ethernet adapter.
The problem only shows up when a MacBook in its initial state meets a profile that 
contains a "wired" section (you can see it in the XML).
The workaround for you is to plug in a suitable wired ethernet adapter once, 
afterwards it should work.
Your university may also decide to provide a "wireless only" profile; this is 
what we did after lots of trouble.

Good luck
Martin

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