Re: Trouble Connecting to WPA network

[Jon Escombe <lists dresco co uk>]

Zach Tibbitts wrote:
> I'm using networkmanager 0.62 on Ubuntu Dapper, and am having trouble 
> to connect to my school's wireless network, which uses WPA encryption.
> I cannot get NM to connect solely via gui, but running wpa_supplicant 
> at the commandline made the network appear in the NM applet, and then 
> I could connect to it fine.
> However, I would like to get this working without needing to use the 
> commandline
>
> the following is the conf file that will successfully connect to my 
> network: (w/o my username and password)
>
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
>
> eapol_version=1
>
> ap_scan=2
>
> fast_reauth=1
>
> network={
>        ssid="UofL_Auth"
>        proto=RSN
>        key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
>        auth_alg=OPEN
>        eap=TTLS
>        pairwise=CCMP
>        group=CCMP
>        anonymous_identity="anonymous"
>
>        #Ulink user ID and password go here
>        identity="xxxxxxx"
>        password="yyyyyyy"
>
>        phase2="auth=PAP"
>        priority=4
> }
>
> how should i put this into nm-applet?
> also, is there a way to save the profile, so I don't have to put this 
> info in every time?
>
> --
> Zach Tibbitts - zach collegegeek org <mailto:zach collegegeek org>
> http://collegegeek.org

I don't think NM supports phase2 PAP authentication yet... Have a search 
in the archives, I'm sure there was a thread on it a while ago...

Cheers,
Jon.