Topic: wicd 1.5.1 WPA Enterprise: cannot leave certificate field blank

My WPA Enterprise connection requires leaving the certificate field blank, as the cert is fetched during the connection. However, making the settings of:

WPA Enterprise
PEAP-TKIP

requires a cert path be filled in. When trying to leave it blank, wicd complains and will not continue. Also trying to specify it as:

/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

does not seem to work. hmm

Is there any way to leave this field blank? Or disable the 'required' bit? Thank you!

  • dano
  • Developer
  • Offline

Re: wicd 1.5.1 WPA Enterprise: cannot leave certificate field blank

You could just remove it from the template file in /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/peap-tkip.  Change this:

name = PEAP with TKIP
author = Fralaltro
version = 1
require identity *Identity password *Password ca_cert *Path_to_CA_Cert
-----
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
        ssid="$_ESSID"
        scan_ssid=$_SCAN
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        pairwise=TKIP
        group=TKIP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="$_IDENTITY"
        password="$_PASSWORD"
        ca_cert="$_CA_CERT"
        phase1="peaplabel=0"
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
}

To this

name = PEAP with TKIP
author = Fralaltro
version = 1
require identity *Identity password *Password
-----
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
        ssid="$_ESSID"
        scan_ssid=$_SCAN
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        pairwise=TKIP
        group=TKIP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="$_IDENTITY"
        password="$_PASSWORD"
        phase1="peaplabel=0"
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
}

Re: wicd 1.5.1 WPA Enterprise: cannot leave certificate field blank

Thank you that worked! smile

I can now enjoy WPA Enterprise goodness.

Last edited by stmiller (2008-08-26 07:02:18)