Problems conecting to WPA security access point [solved]

Question

I am trying to set up a wireless in my university (to the access point). I have IBM ThinkPad R61 notebook with Intel ipw4965 wireless card. I have installed ipw4965, iwlwifi, netcfg2, wpa_supplicant by pacman and I have succsesfully configured my home wireless with WPA security. Has anybody any suggestions what is wrong with my configuration?
University gives this information:
The example of .config:
CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL = y
CONFIG_EAP_MD5 = y
CONFIG_MSCHAPV2 = y
CONFIG_EAP_TLS = y
CONFIG_EAP_PEAP = y
The example of wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid="MIF"
eap=PEAP
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
identity="my user name"
password="my password"
phase1="peaplabel=0"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
My configuration:
My wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid="MIF"
eap=PEAP
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
identity="my username"
password="my password"
phase1="peaplabel=0"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
My [mifwifi] (wireless profile in /etc/network.d/mifwifi):
DESCRIPTION="MIF wireless"
CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="MIF"
USEWPA="yes"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=20
WPAOPTS=""
When I try to run [netcfg2 mifwifi] to set up university wireless I get the error similar to this:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
Passprase must be between 8..63 characters
P.S. Sorry for my language mistakes, I just learning English.
Last edited by Edd (2008-02-07 07:56:10)

Answer 1

Hello,
If you want to use your wpa_supplicant.conf file, you should set SECURITY="wpa-config" in your netcfg2 profile, and add WPA_CONF=/path/to/wpa_supplicant.conf (in the same file).  The passphrase error is probably caused by the fact that netcfg2 is not reading your wpa_supplicant conf file, and there is no password defined anywhere else.