Hey,
I’m looking to move my wireless configuration from Network Manager to wpa_supplicant\ifconfig. I do have a couple of questions that I’m going to break up into sections. The network I am rying connecting to is a WPA PSK with TKIP for group and pairwise.
Before I get too far, I need to clear up some of the terminology I’ll be using:
When I refer to wpa_supplicant, this means I’m running it by hand.
When I refer to YaST, this means having YaST set up wpa_supplicant and running by however it does.
When I refer to Network Manager, this means Network Manager setting up wpa_supplicant and running it however it does.
(Just wanted to get that said before I get replies about how the later two use wpa_supplicant)
From Network Manager to wpa_supplicant
Now, there are a million different posts on the internet of how to use wpa_supplicant, but there doesn’t seem to be that much in the ways of going from Network Manager to wpa_supplicant.
I know that Network Manager uses wpa_supplicant, but does anyone know where it keeps the configuration at?
From YaST to wpa_supplicant
Something that I’ve noticed as well, I can set up a wireless card in YaST. It then puts the configuration into /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0. As I look through this, there are some parts of the configuration that seems to be missing. This being group and pairwise are not mentioned at all. How does YaST\wpa_supplicant know what the network is? The only guess I have is that it scans the network and pulls out what it needs…
wpa_supplicant issues
I’ve gotten wpa_supplicant to work for a few networks, but not without issues.
The biggest one being is when I am associated with a point, it’ll get connected and then it’ll drop out and reconnect. It does this on a fairly regular basis. When it is connected, and I’ve get up DNS and default gateway everything works just fine. Does anyone have an idea why it would drop and pick backup? It does not do this when using network manager or when it is set up with YaST.
The next one, I’m only getting an IP address from my AP when using wpa_supplicant. When it is set up with YaST it gets an IP, DNS, and default gateway. Is there a entry I might be missing in my wpa_supplicant.conf?
Below is my wpa_supplicant.conf for reference, nothing too exciting though:
network={
ssid="my-network"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="my-unencrypted-password"
}
Anyway, hope I’ve explained everything well enough, and hopefully I can get things cleared up!