Connection to wireless network - wpa

[Helmut Schaa]

Am Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 schrieb rozelak at volny.cz:
> 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

Try WPA Enterprise...

> 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.

Thats the difficult part ;-)
The output of nm-tool would help a lot to determine if its a general 
NetworkManager issue. I think it should be usable without gnome. Maybe you 
can try to compile it from the sources?

> 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
> }

Ok, so you need phase2 authentication -> knm 0.2.

Regards
Helmut