Re: Connection to wireless network - wpa

[rozelak at volny.cz]

Hallo,

partially good news. I tried to connet eduroam manually (using iwconfig,
ifconfig, wpa_supplicant), and I was succesfull! However, I had to set
"key_mgmt=IEEE8021X" in wpa_supplicant config file. I was not able to
find this in knm config, when "Connect to other ...." option was chosen
from the knm applet menu (all other options I was able to found and
set). Moreover, there is still the issue, that knm does not offer wpa
a setting dialog (the same/similar to "connect to other ..." option)
when the AP is chosen directly.

There is the example of wpa_supplicant config file for which the connection
worked:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=2
fast_reauth=1

network={
ssid="eduroam"
key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
eap=PEAP
proto=WPA
identity="my_name at ZCU.CZ"
password="my_password"
ca_cert="path_to_certificate"
phase1="peaplabel=0"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
priority=10
}


Best regards,
Dan


----- PŮVODNÍ ZPRÁVA -----
Od: "Helmut Schaa" <hschaa at suse.de>
Komu: rozelak at volny.cz
Předmět: Re: Connection to wireless network - wpa
Datum: 21.6.2007 - 10:19:57

> Am Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2007 schrieb rozelak at volny.cz:
> > I send the required outputs (shortened to relevant
> > data):
> > 
> Thanks. I cannot see anything unusual at "eduroam"
> network. So I guess it is a
> NetworkManager or KNetworkManager issue.
> 
> > I use ipw2200 "driver", which is reported to be working
> > with NM, I guess:
> > 
> I have the ipw2200 too and it does work ;-).
> 
> > One think to add - just now I realized, that I am
> > not able to connect
> > > the "eduroam" net even manually (running iwconfig,
> > ifconfig, wpa_supplicant
> > > with appropriate settings) - wpa_supplicant was not
> > able to authentize
> > > me. I have send an e-mail to our support, so I expect
> > that something
> > > may be brokem on my side. Nevertheless, I would expect
> > knm to show some
> > > configuration for WPA, even if the authentization
> > will fail then. However,
> > > knm allows WEP configuration only.
> 
> Have you ever tried the "connect to other network"
> option? If not, please do
> so ;-)
> 
> > I do not have "nm-tool" installed (part of NM? It
> > was not installed
> > > togerher with NM. Depends on Gnome?). So I cannot
> > provide its output; is it
> > > big problem?
> 
> The output would be nice for validation if the problem
> is NetworkManager or
> KNetworkManager specific. On SuSE nm-tool is packaged
> together with
> NetworkManager.
> 
> Helmut