Secure WPA Networks

hunterjoz1996 · 03-17-2014, 07:17 PM

I looked this up beforehand, and discovered data from two years ago. The Gentoo disc was not equipped with WPA support. Has this changed, and if so, how do I connect to a WPA network? If there isn't a way in the Gentoo disc, is there another Gentoo-based disc that has Speakup support for software speech that I can use?

estabroo · 03-18-2014, 05:44 PM

wpa-supplicant is the program you need.

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant

hunterjoz1996 · 03-22-2014, 06:43 PM

I'm getting an error to the effect that a four way handshake failed, and wpa_supplicant won't connect.
Here's what I've done:
#wpa_passphrase supernetwork thiswpakey >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
#wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlp7s0
That's where the error happens.

estabroo · 03-25-2014, 09:45 AM

Is the interface up and enabled (i.e. driver loaded and iwconfig up)?
Are you sure wlp7s0 is the interface name? Sounds more like the driver name. Do an ifconfig -a and see what the interface name is, typically it'll be something like wlan0