How to set up wireless for text mode login

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Feb 27 20:31:26 UTC 2009


Gordon Charrick wrote:
> I've got Fedora 10 on my home "server" with an old wireless B card 
> installed. If I start X and run system-config-network I can 
> successfully bring up the wireless network using Network Manager, so 
> support for my wireless card is already built-in. But as soon as I 
> "log off" and go back to run level 3 (I boot up in level 3 and start X 
> by hand) it shuts down my wireless connection.
>
> I'd like to set this machine up so the wireless network comes up 
> automatically at reboot. I've got the router set up with WPA2 and AES 
> so I need to store the key somewhere. Are there good instructions for 
> doing this somewhere? 

My FC10 system is off right now, but I have been using wpa_supplicant in 
Centos for a long time.

First you need to modify wpa_supplicant.conf here is one of my entries:

network={
ssid="IEEE.1x"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
eap=PEAP
identity="me"
password="mine"
ca_cert="/usr/share/ssl/cert.pem"
phase1="peapver=1"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
priority=10
}

network={
ssid="rsa2008peap"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
eap=PEAP
identity="me"
password="mine"
ca_cert="/home/rgm/data/ms1der.cer"
phase1="peapver=1"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
priority=10
}


Then you need to run:

ifconfig eth1 up
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -dd -K -D wext -i eth1 -c 
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf


Or something similar. Read the man to get the right -D value.





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