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anadyr

Member

Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 225

RT2500 + wpa_supplicant + PAP authorizating

Hi,

I want to connect to my wireless university network, but I can't get it to work. Maybe someone could help me with these questions:

First question: My university says that wpa_supplicant should be compiled with at least these options:
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_=y
Is that the case with the Arch version?

Second question: In the Archwiki on "Wireless" I read:

wpa_supplicant is not supported using the standard wext interface. The driver does support WPA (using hardware encryption), but in a non-standard way. The trunk version of wpa_supplicant (0.6.x) appears to include special support for this driver, and it is also possible to negotiate a WPA connection manually using iwpriv commands.

I use iwpriv commands to connect to my home WPA network, but the university network does not use WPA but PAP or something. This is the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1

network={
        ssid="uva"
        scan_ssid=1
        key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
        eap=TTLS
        anonymous_identity="anonymous@uva.nl"
        phase2="auth=PAP"
        identity="username@uva.nl"
        password="password"
        ca_cert="/etc/1x/certs/SURFnet-PCA-Root-CA.pem"
}

After that I should start wpa_supplicant with:
wpa_supplicant -Bw -c  /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 (or ra0, I suppose)

This does not work... How can I get this to work with a RT2500 card? Unfortunately I cannot just try everything now because I have to be at the university (where I am luckily not the whole day), but does someone have an idea?

Last edited by anadyr (2008-01-23 20:28:44)

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: RT2500 + wpa_supplicant + PAP authorizating

In short, the RT2500 driver does not work with wpa_supplicant.

There is an alternative, the newer and more capable rt2x00 drivers, which include rt2500pci which will work with wpa_supplicant. Im pretty sure theyre in the repos.

James