OS type: opensuse 12.1 x86 32bit
DE: KDE 4.7.2
I use the network management, but it required the password(WPA2 personal), which i don’t have.(i was told the WPS button is design to avoid password)
I have tried wpa_gui, but the WPS page is disabled.
thanks.
On 07/31/2012 08:06 AM, HelloGCC wrote:
>
> OS type: opensuse 12.1 x86 32bit
> DE: KDE 4.7.2
>
> I use the network management, but it required the password(WPA2
> personal), which i don’t have.(i was told the WPS button is design to
> avoid password)
> I have tried wpa_gui, but the WPS page is disabled.
> thanks.
The whole WPS button/method is designed and works for Winblows users. Many of
them are incapable of entering a pass phrase into the networking section.
If you have legitimate access to the wifi network, the admin should give you the
pass phrase. You need it!
thank you for your reply.
actually i don’t totally understand you.
if opensuse(linux) don’t supports WPS, why wpa_gui provide the WPS option.
The turth is that i can’t get the pass phrase, i can only push the router’s WPS button, how do i get the connection done.
On 07/31/2012 10:26 AM, HelloGCC wrote:
>
> lwfinger;2477470 Wrote:
>> On 07/31/2012 08:06 AM, HelloGCC wrote:
>>>
>>> OS type: opensuse 12.1 x86 32bit
>>> DE: KDE 4.7.2
>>>
>>> I use the network management, but it required the password(WPA2
>>> personal), which i don’t have.(i was told the WPS button is design to
>>> avoid password)
>>> I have tried wpa_gui, but the WPS page is disabled.
>>> thanks.
>>
>> The whole WPS button/method is designed and works for Winblows users.
>> Many of
>> them are incapable of entering a pass phrase into the networking
>> section.
>>
>> If you have legitimate access to the wifi network, the admin should
>> give you the
>> pass phrase. You need it!
>
> thank you for your reply.
>
> actually i don’t totally understand you.
>
> if opensuse(linux) don’t supports WPS, why wpa_gui provide the WPS
> option.
> The turth is that i can’t get the pass phrase, i can only push the
> router’s WPS button, how do i get the connection done.
I have no idea what wpa-gui does, but you said the option is not enabled.
I didn’t know that this is your router. As long as you control it, ignore the
WPS button, and connect to the router with a wire. You can determine the
router’s address from the IP address that your wired connection is assigned. If
your address is 192.168.x.y, then the router will be probably be at 192.168.x.1
or less likely at 192.168.x.254. Now log into the admin page at its address. You
will need to know the username and password. Once logged in, you will be able to
determine the WPA2 pass phrase that it is using, or you can set it to whatever
one you like. In addition, you should disable WPS as it is inherently insecure.
Anyone with physical access to your router caqn change the WPA2 pass phrase at
any time.
If you have not changed the default password on the router, you need to do that
now. Many people know the default password assigned by each of the vendors.
The “router” is not mine, it belongs to the landlord. You mentioned the wired way, which i’m using now to connect to the Internet, but when i try to access 192.168.1.1, i got a login page, which ask me to input the user name and password, this account was given from the ISP, i noticed that the “router” is from the ISP too. I don’t even think it is a normal router. So i can’t get the pass phrase, that means if i want connect to the network with wireless way, i should follow the WPS protocol. So we get to the problem that i described in the title.
On 08/01/2012 09:06 AM, HelloGCC wrote:
> it belongs to the landlord.
if the landlord wants to allow you to use his/her wi-fi s/he will have
to do one of two things:
give you the pass phrase needed to use the wi-fi, or
run his/her wi-fi ‘open’ so no pass phrase is needed (in that case
anyone and everyone can use it…even the guy parked in the parking lot
uploading kiddie-porn, so the landlord is probably not wanting to do that!!)
note: the password to access the router’s admin functions is different
from the pass phrase you need in order to connect to the router
wirelessly and get to the net…
if you have a wired connection and the landlord doesn’t want you using
his/her wi-fi then you buy your own wi-fi router and plug it into the
wire you are now using for net access…
and set up your router/access point with a secure pass phrase which
you can then put into your laptop, and keep the bad guys out.
–
dd
i don’t think the landlord don’t want me to use the wifi.
The WPS works fine in windows, my roommate is using Win7 and he can
connect to the router successfully. Since i’m using openSuSE i don’t know how to connect
to the router. i’m here to ask the way that how to connect to the router which using
WPS thing in Linux. I have googled “wifi protected setup linux”, it seems that WPS
supports Linux.
On 08/01/2012 10:26 AM, HelloGCC wrote:
>
> i don’t think the landlord don’t want me to use the wifi.
> The WPS works fine in windows
no, it does not “work fine” in Windows…it is very easily cracked and
all who connect with it are in danger of all their internet business
being intercepted (like passwords and bank account numbers, etc)…
here: “WPS has been shown to easily fall to brute-force attacks. A major
security flaw was revealed in December 2011 that affects wireless
routers with the WPS feature, which most recent models have enabled by
default. The flaw allows a remote attacker to recover the WPS PIN and,
with it, the network’s WPA/WPA2 pre-shared key in a few hours. Users
have been urged to turn off the WPS feature, although this may not be
possible on some router models.” cite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup
as Larry told you yesterday “If you have legitimate access to the wifi
network, the admin should give you the pass phrase.”
–
dd
OK, forget all the security problem, i just want to know how to connect to the router,
because wired connection is so inconvenient.
> i just want to know how to connect to the router,
as far as i can tell your choices are:
–
dd
On 08/01/2012 08:41 AM, dd@home.dk wrote:
>> i just want to know how to connect to the router,
>
> as far as i can tell your choices are:
>
> - use the pass phrase provided by the wifi router admin
> - have the wifi router use no security (run open)
> - wire your own wifi router to the providers network
> - use Windows.
I agree. For the security reasons cited above, I do not think NetworkManager
will ever implement WPS.
Does that means that there is no way to accomplish the connect task in linux?
On 08/04/2012 11:36 AM, HelloGCC wrote:
>
> Does that means that there is no way to accomplish the connect task in
> linux?
of course not!
many many thousands of folks using linux are connect this very second
via wi-fi!!
just use the pass phrase provided by the wifi router admin or connect to
a router running open…
how many times does that have to be said??? 
–
dd
OK, i got it.
Thank you.
thus, yes, alas, without passphrase, no joy
in fact wpa_supplicant is designed to work with /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf which stores the passphrase or certificate information for EAP.
On 02/18/2013 04:46 AM, claudebucher wrote:
>
> HelloGCC;2477465 Wrote:
>> OS type: opensuse 12.1 x86 32bit
>> DE: KDE 4.7.2
>>
>> I use the network management, but it required the password(WPA2
>> personal), which i don’t have.(i was told the WPS button is design to
>> avoid password)
>> I have tried wpa_gui, but the WPS page is disabled.
>> thanks.
>
> 1) install wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant_gui (you obviously already
> did that as you already have wpa_gui)
> 2) connect to the wireless network WITH THE PASSPHRASE (in Manage
> Networks, press scan, select you network and fill in WPA2 passphrase);
> if you don’t have that, the whole exercise is futile 
> 3) go to WPS and press PBC - push button, press the corresponding
> button on your Access Point and… enjoy ~:=
>
> thus, yes, alas, without passphrase, no joy
> in fact wpa_supplicant is designed to work with
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf which stores the passphrase or certificate
> information for EAP.
I have never used WPS, but there is a description on how to do it with Linux at
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/wps using wpa_cli, the
command-line interface to wpa_supplicant. For PBC, the command is:
wpa_cli wps_pbc [BSSID]
You can get the BSSID from the address line in the output of ‘sudo
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan’.
NetworkManager does not support WPS.
Yes, opensuse supports WPS PBC.
The configuration file for either PBC or PIN is the same. It should contain a network block with
two elements:
network={
proto=WPS
eap=WPS}
That’s it! The differentiation between PBC and PIN is in the commands. To activate the PBC
method, use the “pbc” command in wpa_cli. For example,
OK
Finally:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1
network={
proto=WPS
eap=WPS
}
wpa_cli v0.5.10
Copyright (c) 2004-2008, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
Interactive mode
> pbc
OK
<2>Trying to associate with 00:1c:f0:ff:6a:9e (SSID=‘dlink6A9E’ freq=5805 MHz)
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>Associated with 00:1c:f0:ff:6a:9e
<2>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-STARTED EAP authentication started
<2>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-METHOD EAP vendor 14122 method 1 (WPS) selected
<2>CTRL-EVENT-EAP-FAILURE EAP authentication failed
<2>CTRL-EVENT-WPS-SUCCESS
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>Trying to associate with 00:1c:f0:ff:6a:9e (SSID=‘dlink6A9E’ freq=5805 MHz)
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
<2>Associated with 00:1c:f0:ff:6a:9e
<2>WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:1c:f0:ff:6a:9e [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
<2>CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1c:f0:ff:6a:9e completed (auth)
[id=0 id_str=]
> save_config
OK> quit
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1
network={
ssid=“dlink6A9E”
psk=62edba2fcae92265da5414fc967c4bf5c62963cca09385cf699957d9f66a0586
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
auth_alg=OPEN
eap=WPS
}
On 03/20/2014 07:46 AM, chipytux wrote:
>
> HelloGCC;2477480 Wrote:
>> thank you for your reply.
>>
>> actually i don’t totally understand you.
>>
>> if opensuse(linux) don’t supports WPS, why wpa_gui provide the WPS
>> option.
>> The turth is that i can’t get the pass phrase, i can only push the
>> router’s WPS button, how do i get the connection done.
>
>
>
> Yes, opensuse supports WPS PBC.
I do not think that all Linux drivers support WPS. Some do, which is why the
wpa_gui supports it.
Is this your router, then the owner should be able to supply the passphrase. If
it is yours, are you telling us that your router does not have a Web page for
configuration?
don’t know on what forlone island you live but everywhere else everybody uses WPS.
get real
and expecting EVERYBODY else to jump around & make an extra set up just for you 'cuz you happen to use what exactly? openWHAT? what a **** is that, not supporting WPS !?!
On 03/24/2014 03:06 AM, claudebucher wrote:
>
> don’t know on what forlone island you live but everywhere else everybody
> uses WPS.
> get real
> and expecting EVERYBODY else to jump around & make an extra set up just
> for you 'cuz you happen to use what exactly? openWHAT? what a **** is
> that, not supporting WPS !?!
That response was entirely uncalled for!!!
The issue has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with openSUSE. It is kernel code that
determines whether a given driver has that support.
You are welcome, of course, to submit patches for all the drivers that do not
support WPS. That is what open-source is all about.