Hi,
after a long way i finaly made my 4965 card work with my Debian and kernel 2.6.24-1 (64-bit). I can connect to WEP WLAN without problems.
Now i want to configure my card for our companys WLAN. We have Domain authentication. I already could get the WPA2 config running with my old labtop with Suse 10.3. With Suse it was relatively easy with Knetworkmanager. Now with Debian i have to get this crap running by hand because the Networkmanager installation i tried under gnome does not work... I have an Networkmanager Icon under gnome but it can not find any card...

So can anybode give me a clue how i can configure my debian by hand for authentication with a WPA2 Enterprise WLAN which is EAP based and needs Windows Domain User Authentication (PEAP and MSCHAPv2).

Thanks in advance.

Huberbauer

You need to install a program called wpa_supplicant. Either use apt-get or aptitude to install it. I don't know if it works with the GUI programs, but at a command line I can (and have) authenticated wirelessly with most every type of wpa encryption, including PEAP.

Peace,
JimBass

I have struggled with using wpa_supplicant myself, trying to connect to just such a network. For the benefit of all those who know as little as I do, is there a how-to tutorial about using wpa_supplicant anywhere? That would be great.

Hi,
i have installed wpa_supplicant but i am not shure if i configured it correctly. Hopefully someone can help me with this part.
My wpa_supplicant file looks like this:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="WirelessLANSSID"
proto=WPA
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=PEAP TTLS TLS
identity="DOMAIN\USERNAME"
password="PASSWORD"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPv2"
}



My /etc/network/interfaces file i have modified too like this:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid WirelessLANSSID
pre-up wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dmadwifi -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant


i have also tried -Dwext option but this does not work too.
The modules for madwifi are loaded correct and the iwl4965 module too. i can see the network in kismet for example but i dont know how i have to configure the files correctly.

Thanks

You have a few problems in there. You shouldn't have 2 files controlling one thing, and in this case you do have that, possibly causing a problem as the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file fights with the /etc/network/interfaces file. I also think you have way too much going on in your wpa.supplicant.conf file, and bet you'll get better results by trimming it down.

First off, don't put anything about a particular ssid in your /etc/network/interfaces file. That file effects your interface all the time, so with the ssid wrapped in there, you'll never be able to authenticate at a coffee shop or wifi hotspot. I'd make that file look like this for the wireless card:

With that cleaned out, lets compare our wpa_supplicant.conf files - yours:

and mine:

That authenticates against a wpa2 network without issue on my system. I'm going to suggest you trim down to the bare minimum, and then add things in piece by piece as necessary. Here's how I would start:

You may not need the key_mgmt, eap, or phase2 lines either. Then we've got to get this running on the terminal, and that also should spit errors that the GUI sometimes isn't so easy to spot.

You do need to call wpa_supplicant with -Dmadwifi for your setup, wext would be if your card worked with just the kernel and firmware, basically without madwifi.

So here are some commands:

If the wpa_supplicant line doesn't complete the handshake, add more junk in. I no longer provide support for the place where I did PEAP wireless auth, but it was a simple file like mine, maybe one or 2 additional options, not 12 of them though.

Please post back with problems.

Peace,
JimBass