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Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon WPA/2 EAP enterprise

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I am having issues with connecting to the wireless internet at my college which uses a WPA2 enterprise security type.
I have a Toshiba Satellite P755D-S5172 with a Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter with Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64-bit Cinnamon version 2.4.8
kernel 3.13.0-49-generic
output from: sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
      ==> PCI ID = 168c:002b (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"AstateAnywhere"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 88:F0:31:34:AC:B0   
          Bit Rate=52 Mb/s   Tx-Power=16 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=36/70  Signal level=-74 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:6  Invalid misc:206   Missed beacon:0

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr dc:0e:a1:42:e5:28  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:123268 (123.2 KB)  TX bytes:123268 (123.2 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 9c:b7:0d:4f:23:6f  
          inet addr:147.97.244.75  Bcast:147.97.247.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::9eb7:dff:fe4f:236f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:59336 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:13594 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:14622850 (14.6 MB)  TX bytes:2347442 (2.3 MB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		147.97.50.80
Address:	147.97.50.80#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.32
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.33
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.34
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.35
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.36
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.37
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.38
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.39
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.40
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.41
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.115.46
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