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

[Kel Modderman]

tags 401413 patch
thanks

Hi Torquil,

On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:19, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> I am trying to connect to a wired network with IEEE8021X authentication.

Ok. Something I admit to having very little experience with.

> 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,

Please try using attached diff to /etc/wpasupplicant/functions.sh

Can you paste output of 'ifup --verbose eth0' and possibly 
add 'wpa-maint-debug 1' and give mass output from ifupdown.sh|functions.sh 
(set -x).

Thanks, Kel.

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