wpa-ttls connection problems

samuel samuel.verstraete at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 14:47:39 EDT 2008


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:43 PM, samuel <samuel.verstraete at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:51:21PM +0200, samuel wrote:
>>
>>> My university has a wireless network and they handed out instructions
>>> to connect to the network for windows and macosx...
>>>
>>> These are the instructions for the osX connection:
>>> http://helpdesk.ugent.be/ugentnet/UGentWPA_MACOS.pdf
>>
>>> **I have tried to translate this in what i think should be a correct
>>> wpa_supplicant config... still it doesn't seem to be able to connect:
>>
>> Your configuration looks fine to me and seems to match with what is
>> described in the instructions for OS X.
>>
>>> **this is the log when i turn on extreme logging:
>>>
>>> http://merlin.ugent.be/log
>>
>> This seems to show successfully started EAP-TTLS handshake. However, the
>> authentication server behavior on processing the first EAP-TTLS packet
>> from the peer is odd. It tries to start EAP-PEAP at that point which is
>> not allowed change at that point in EAP handshake.. Would you happen to
>> know which authentication server is used?
>
> I have absolutely no idea...  But i guess i could ask them...
>
> but i do know that the university network has PEAP access as well...
> but I was told that one is less stable than TTLS...
> I do have instructions for NetworkManager in Ubuntu for the PEAP thingy... :
> http://helpdesk.ugent.be/ugentnet/UGentWPA_ubuntu.pdf
>
> i've "translated" those instructions as well... to no avail...
>
> network={
>        ssid="UGentWPA"
>        scan_ssid=1
>        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
>        eap=PEAP
>        identity="GEBRUIKER"
>        password="PASWOORD"
>        ca_cert="/etc/certs/ct_root.pem"
>        priority=1
>        }
>
> i get pretty much the same error actually....
>

Don't know if i it matters but i'm using the ath9k driver from the
2.6.27rc3 kernel

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>> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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