Re: NetworkManager and wpa

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 23:03 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> 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

There is phase2 functionality in 0.6.5 SVN and should be there when it
gets released.

Dan