[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#401413: wpasupplicant: Settings for wired network are ignored

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.5.5-3
Severity: normal

Hello,

I am trying to connect to a wired network with IEEE8021X authentication. 
Thus I have no wpa-ssid line in /etc/network/interfaces, following the 
advise given here:
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2006-November/014522.html

But looking at the function conf_wpa_supplicant() in
/etc/wpasupplicant/functions.sh, the effect of not setting the ssid is 
that none of the options, e.g. wpa-key-mgmt, wpa-identity, wpa-eap,... 
are read from /etc/network/interfaces. I have the following paragraph in 
the interfaces file:

iface eth0 inet dhcp
      wpa-ap-scan 0
      wpa-driver wired
      wpa-key-mgmt IEEE8021X
      wpa-eap PEAP
      wpa-phase1 peaplabel=0
      wpa-phase2 auth=MSCHAPV2
      wpa-eapol-flags 0
      wpa-identity [secret]
      wpa-password [secret]

Best regards,
Torquil Sørensen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=no_NO.utf8, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.0.1-2     simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for 
terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-1       GNU readline and history 
libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8c-4    SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-22      Linux Standard Base 3.1 
init scrip

Versions of packages wpasupplicant recommends:
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.0.4-10   DHCP Client

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