Re: NetworkManager and wpa

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 3/23/07, Martin Monroe <willismonroe gmail com> wrote:
> Just as a preface: I think NetworkManager is great and use it almost
> exclusively to connect to wired or wireless networks on my Ubuntu Edgy
> Laptop.
>
> Here's one case where it doesn't work and I hope the information I provide
> can help in solving the problem:
>
> I am unable to connect to my university's wifi network through the
> NetworkManager dialogs.  The icon whirls and then 60s are reached and it
> disconnects for taking too long.  I had a look at syslog as it was doing
> this but to my untrained eye saw nothing of interest.
>
> I can however connect with just straight wpa_supplicant and dhclient.  My
> school (thankfully) provided a wpa_supplicant.conf file for Linux users to
> install with the instructions "After this it should all just work".
>
> the file is as follows:
> /////////////////////////////////////////
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=0
>
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=1
> fast_reauth=1
>
> network={
>   ssid="eduroam"
>
>   key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
>   eap=TTLS
>
>   ca_cert="/etc/ssl/certs/soas-root-ca.pem"
>   anonymous_identity="@soas.ac.uk"
>   identity=" username soas ac uk"
>   password="password"
>   phase2="auth=PAP"
>
>   priority=5
>
> }
>
> ///////////////////////////////
>
> then by running the command line:
> wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -K -dd -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
>
> and waiting a few seconds and then running dhclient, I'm connected to the
> network.
>
> I've tried all manner of options in NetworkManager and none seem to work.
>
> I thought it might have something to do with the phase2 authentication (the
> line being: "phase2="auth=PAP"") as I saw no-where to set that in NM.
>
> Anyway I hope this case might help improve NetworkManager,
>
> Best of luck,
> -M. Willis Monroe
>
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As you guessed Phase2 auth is not supported in NM yet but I think it
is slated for .7