Wpa_supplicant in wired network [SOLVED AGAIN]

Question

Hi to all!
Here is a problem with using wpa_supplicant in wired network. My internet provider uses IEEE8021X EAP MD5 for authentication. Recently I used wpa_supplicant with another Linux and it worked. Here is my wpa_supplicant.conf:
ap_scan=0
network={
key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
eap=MD5
identity="login"
password="password"
I used wired driver and all was working. Now in Arch I cant get internet connection. What I have to do to fix it?
Here is the problem solvation in Ubuntu. But in Arch there is no such directory /etc/network/ and file 'interfaces' in it. And I suppose that in Arch it must be different. Who did face same problem?
Thanks.
PROBLEM IS SOLVED. Internet connection works. I cant show files now, when I setup something with browser I'll show how I solved this problem. Now I must use MS XP for posting here [
Last edited by vennen (2008-04-02 09:46:33)

Answer 1

My previous configuration did not work well, often I had to run wpa_supplicant and dhcp client manually (maybe always - it's possible it never worked ). After slight inspection of netcfg2 code, it seems that wired 802.1x is not yet supported natively, and I also realized why my config could not work. The following network profile is now working well for me. Someone might find it helpful.
# this is /etc/network.d/my8021x
CONNECTION="ethernet"
DESCRIPTION="My 802.1x wired connection"
INTERFACE=eth0
IP="dhcp"
DHCP_TIMEOUT=10
_WPA_CONF=/etc/wpa_supplicant_my8021x.conf
_WPA_TIMEOUT=5
PRE_UP="wpa_supplicant -Dwired -i$INTERFACE -c$_WPA_CONF -B; wpa_cli logon; sleep $_WPA_TIMEOUT"
POST_DOWN="wpa_cli -i$INTERFACE logoff; wpa_cli terminate"
.. and my /etc/rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(... ... net-profiles ... ...)
NETWORKS=(my8021x)