wpa_supplicant and network-admin

[Scott Blayney]

Peter, thank you, thank you, thank you!

It looks like I had to make a change to my /etc/network/interfaces file.
Once I removed the essid entry and added the wpa-conf entry everything
worked as expected.  I also added the ctrl_interface_group line
to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.  After a week without wireless access I was
considering therapy, but your fix was much cheaper.

Scott

On Sun, 2007-01-04 at 10:00 -0400, Peter Whittaker wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-30-03 at 12:30 -0400, Scott Blayney wrote:
> > I have recently upgraded to 6.10 from 6.06.  Under 6.06 I was able to
> > select a wireless network from the drop-down list, but this no longer
> > works.  Has anyone been able to use wpa_supplicant successfully under
> > 6.10?
> 
> I don't think I ever tried WiFi with 6.06; I did have it working with
> 6.10, using the config files below. With 7.04 (Feisty) beta, it works
> like a charm, without config files - I let Network Manager do the work,
> and all is well, and I'm using WPA2 (RSN) with AES on that network.
> 
> For 6.10, my config files were the following:
> 
> % cat /etc/network/interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> wireless-essid mySSID # I don't this was necessary
> wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> % cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=dialout
> network={
>         ssid="mySSID"
>         key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>         proto=WPA
>         pairwise=TKIP
>         group=TKIP
> 
> psk=0f4a8f36f162d60701b4730fb484a40dce1cd85464de0ceb02d32f4b7b351903
> 
> }
> 
> The psk was generated using
> 
> % wpa_passphrase mySSID "my very secret passphrase"
> 
> You don't have to do this, you can put the passphrase in the
> wpa_supplicant.conf, just quote it:
> 
> 	psk="my very secret passphrase"
> 
> wpa_supplicant will then generate the passphrase itself. The on-line
> pages do say this is a performance hit, though, and generating the key
> yourself is quite easy.
> 
> This - quoted or not, passphrase or actual key - was the biggest
> stumbling block I had to getting WPA working under 6.10: I had to ensure
> that I used the right datum on the client and the AP. In the end, the AP
> wanted the passphrase, unquoted, but called it the key, while
> wpa_supplicant can play either way, you just need to know which datum
> gets the quotes....
> 
> pww

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