Re: Joining 802.1X network with PEAP

[Giovanni Lovato <giovanni lovato aldu net>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:35 +0200, Giovanni Lovato wrote:
> > At my University we have a wireless network with 802.1X + PEAP
> > authentication. Configuration for wpa_supplicant follows:
> >
> > network={
> >    ssid="Stud"
> >    scan_ssid=1
> >    key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
> >    identity="username"
> >    password="password"
> >    ca_cert="/home/giovanni/ssl/certs/UnivAIR.crt"
> >    phase1="peaplabel=0"
> >    phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
> > }
> >
> > I have NM 0.7 and wpa_supplicant 0.6.3. When I try to connect with NM,
> > log says <http://pastebin.com/m2f6fcfba> and connection fails.
> >  The only difference from wpa_supplicant configuration seems to be the
> > `peapver=0' instead of `peaplabel=0', but maybe it's the same thing and
> > I'm wrong.
> >  What can I try to connect successfully?
>
> Can you try adding 'phase1-peaplabel' as string with a value of "0" in
> GConf for your connection?  Either gconf-editor or gconftool-2 will do
> the trick; drill down to /system/networking/connections and find the
> PEAP connection.  After you've done this, try connecting again and
> verify from the logs that NM sends peaplabel=0 to the supplicant.

No, if I add 'phase1-peaplabel' as string in gconf, then in nm-applet 
the connection disappears and it says:

WARNING **: Invalid connection: 'NMSetting8021x' / 'phase1-peaplabel' 
invalid: 1