How to do WEP-PEAP?

Marc Haber mh+hostap at zugschlus.de
Tue Nov 21 05:23:28 EST 2006


On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:21:44PM -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:33:58AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > WEP104 is not a valid value for pairwise. wpa_supplicant refuses to
> > start up:
> > Line 13: not allowed pairwise cipher (0x4).
> > Line 13: failed to parse pairwise 'WEP104'.
> > Line 21: failed to parse network block.
> > Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.local'.
> 
> pairwise and group options are only used with WPA/WPA2. With
> key_mgmt=IEEE8021X these can be just removed from the configuration.

Thanks for that clarification.

> > Yes, the driver in question is ipw2200, using the wext backend. With
> 
> > $ sudo wpa_supplicant -d -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.local
> > Initializing interface 'eth1' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.local' driver 'default' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
> 
> > wpa_driver_hostap_set_wpa: enabled=1
> 
> This is not 'wext' driver backend..

How stupid of me. Thanks for pointing this out to me.

>  Could you please re-test this with -Dwext?

Yes, wpa_supplicant 0.4.9 works fine now. The wpa_supplicant 0.2.4
that comes with SuSE 9.2 (the strategic platform set for this
"project") doesn't work with the same config file. Is that expected?

Greetings
Marc

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