fc20 with full updates: unable to pair with wifi router

Luke Nath lukenath at hotmail.com
Mon May 5 03:41:03 UTC 2014



> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 00:46:16 +0100
> From: vvmarko at gmail.com
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: fc20 with full updates: unable to pair with wifi router
> 
> On Sun, 4 May 2014 15:35:30 -0700
> Luke Nath <lukenath at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My wifi interface is not managed by NetworkManager.
> > I start wpa_supplicant manually.
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > network={
> >     bssid=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> >     ssid="mynewssid"
> >     scan_ssid=1 # only needed if your access point uses a hidden ssid
> >     mode=MANAGED
> >     key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> >     proto=WPA2
> >     pairwise=CCMP
> >     group=CCMP
> >     psk="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> > }
> 
> Just to be sure --- you did use wpa_passphrase to generate the value
> for the psk entry above, right? I mean, you didn't put the actual
> plain-text passphrase in that field?
> 
> Best, :-)
> Marko

Hi Marko,
In the wpa_supplicant.conf file, you can just put the ascii string quoted in double 
quotes, or the unquoted psk  generated from  invoking wpa_passphrase.
Look it up in the man pages.


 		 	   		  
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