Wi[r]eless security (was: Suspend bug)

David G. Miller dave at davenjudy.org
Tue Feb 6 03:30:20 UTC 2007


"Andras Simon" <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:

> n 2/6/07, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>   
>> >
>> > Looks like I need to bump the priority on implementing WPA.
>> >
>>     
>
> Is that such a major undertaking? I never tried to connect Linux
> wirelessly, but just the other day it took me all of 5 minutes to set
> up my router and phone to talk to each other via a WPA connection (3
> of which went into trying in vain to configure what the router calls
> WPA2 - so I went with WPA1). And I don't even know what all those
> acronyms stand for  :) 
>
> Andras
The AP I have wants an external radius server if I configure WPA.  I 
have freeradius installed on my server so I just need to figure out how 
to configure it so my AP can use it.  Once that's done, I then need to 
see if my laptop can connect to the AP using WPA.  I don't have a good 
way of testing whether freeradius is configured correctly independently 
from having the laptop use it with WPA.  Likewise, I have no way of 
knowing whether WPA on the laptop is configured correctly other than 
having it connect using my freeradius server.  I'm expecting I'll have 
to spend some time debugging this setup.

If I only needed to change one thing, I wouldn't be as concerned.  
Changing two dependent things at the same time is usually a recipe for 
trouble.  Be glad you didn't face a similar problem.

Cheers,
Dave

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