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brian

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Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 16

net-auto-wireless, wpa-configsection

I added WIRELESS_INTERFACE to rc.conf and net-auto-wireless to DAEMONS, and net-auto-wireless starts, but never seems to associate.

I think the problem is probably related to the difficulty I had translating my old profiles to the CONFIGSECTION format. Before, I always used something like

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE="wlan0"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="xxx"
KEY="xxx"
IP="dhcp" 

But examples/wireless-wpa-configsection has stuff I don't recognize like key_mgmt, eap, group, pairwise, anonymous_identity, identity, phase2. What should my CONFIGSECTION look like?

skanky

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From: WAIS

Registered: 2009-10-23

Posts: 1,847

Re: net-auto-wireless, wpa-configsection

I just commented out the stuff I didn't need/understand.

CONNECTION='wireless'
INTERFACE=wlan0
SECURITY='wpa-configsection'
ESSID='MEL'
IP='dhcp'
CONFIGSECTION='
    ssid=MYSSID
    proto=RSN
    pairwise=TKIP CCMP
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    psk=MYKEY
#   eap=TTLS
#   group=TKIP
#   priority=1
#   phase2="auth=PAP"
'

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