On 2018 Nov 02 (Fri) at 17:59:05 +0100 (+0100), Solene Rapenne wrote:
:Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:
:> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 03:41:57PM +0100, Solene Rapenne wrote:
:> > Hello,
:> >
:> > I can't connect to wpa1 networks using join. From the man page, I
understand
:> > that "wpaprotos" parameter isn't supported.
:> >
:> > The id can either be any text string up to 32 characters in
:> > length, or a series of hexadecimal digits up to 64 digits. Any
:> > necessary wpakey or nwkey arguments should be specified on the
:> > same line. May not be used with nwid.
:> >
:> > The SSID when I use "ifconfig iwm0 scan":
:> >
:> > nwid freeboxSSID chan 11 bssid 16:fa:ca:a1:ba:3c 67% HT-MCS15
privacy,short_slottime,wpa1
:> >
:> >
:> > With this line in /etc/hostname.iwm0:
:> >
:> > join "freeboxSSID" wpakey somekeyhere
:> >
:> > It won't connect until I type "ifconfig iwm0 wpaprotos wpa1".
:> >
:> >
:> > If I add the wpaprotos parameters to the /etc/hostname.iwm0 line, when
:> > rebooting, the ifconfig command output is the following.
:> >
:> > iwm0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
:> > lladdr 8c:16:45:9b:c9:fe
:> > index 1 priority 4 llprio 3
:> > trunk: trunkdev trunk0
:> > groups: wlan
:> > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1)
:> > status: no network
:> > ieee80211: join freeboxSSID
:> >
:> > I'm not sure it's a bug, but I prefer to report it.
:>
:> That's probably a bug. Using wpaprotos with join in hostname.if is supposed
:> to work as long as you're specifying it on the same line, like this:
:>
:> join "freeboxSSID" wpakey somekeyhere wpaprotos wpa1
:
:With this line, it doesn't find the SSID after reboot or using netstart.
:
I'll look into it. Thanks for the report!
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