For months now I have been trying to get my laptop running linux to connect
to my school's wireless network. This is the last barrier to my mostly
ditching MS. I can, BTW, connect to the campus wireless network just fine
under Windows. Here is what I know so far.
I can connect just fine to my home wireless network, which uses WPA-PSK,
simply using the Mandrake's wireless configuration tool (MCC). After
selecting the proper info in MCC, it appears that it wrote a network block
to the wpa_supplicant.conf file and all was working fine.
I have never gotten a connection at all on campus however, which uses WPA-
TKIP with PEAP (MSCHAPv2).
Now my troubleshooting has been fraught with confusion. First, it seems
that the MCC tools do not recognize TKIP at all. PSK is the only option I
can select using that tool. Attempts to manually add a network block to
wpa_supplicant.conf have failed. I may not be using the proper parameters
as I certainly don't fully understand it all.
Here is a typical block I have tried to add:
network={
ssid="CWWPA"
key_mgmt=IEEE8021X //as you will see below, this option is checked
but grayed out in my MS Windows config, don't know if that means it is
being used or not
eap=PEAP
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
identity="user name"
password="password"
ca_cert="/etc/cert/ca.pem" //got this from an example on the web, not
sure what it is about so don't know if I should change it
}
However, it is possible that my problems are more than just getting the
config file correct. When I try to use wpa_gui, the term window that opens
with it stalls on something like "trying to access
/var/run/wpa_supplicant/atho" and the gui displays and just forever says
"scanning." I have verified that there is a file called ath0 in the above
mentioned location, but what wpa_supplicant is trying to do with it and why
it is failing is beyond me (though I do know that is the correct
designation for my wireless card).
Finally, here are all the settings I can glean from my working windows
config.
Network Authentication: WPA
Data Encryption: TKIP
SSID; CWWPA
EAP Type: Protected EAP (PEAP)
Enable IEEE 802.1x Authentication box is checked, but grayed out
Authentication method: Secured Password (EAP-MSCHAPv2)
On windows, my username and password are apparently stored somewhere, as
after entering it for the very first time I never had to again. I also can
find nothing in windows that seems to indicate where any authentication
certificate is stored (like the last line in my wpa block above) so I can't
gleen any useful info with regards to that.
So, any help is greatly appreciated. I don't mind RTFM, as long as someone
can direct my efforts (I have already read a lot on this, but I have not
been able to put it all together into a full understanding).
RKS
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