USB WiFi adapter and WPA2

[zhiquan.yeo]

I'm trying to configure my BeagleBone to connect to a WPA2-Personal secured network. I tried setting the 'Security = ' line to 'wpa2', 'wpa2-psk', 'psk' and 'wpa2-personal' but i can't seem to establish a connection. Any thoughts?'

[sbma44]

bumping this. add 'rsn' to the list of things tried -- no luck so far.

[adafruit]

if WPA works but WPA2 does not, you should put in an issue with the beaglebone team - this is a problem with the underlying driver/core not the wifi adapter itself

[sbma44]

OK, but can you confirm what the a working config file *should* look like? AFAICT connman is just about the worst-documented project in existence. I have no idea if "wpa2" should work or not (or if just "wpa" should be sufficient).

[adafruit]

we're not sure - we didnt write connman or support it, there might be other linux packages that can manage a wifi link but thats the only one we know of. we do know that our tutorial example works. we'd suggest testing it with WPA first and seeing if that works, then change settings around

[nullop]

Not sure about wpa2, but I can confirm if you're connecting to an open SSID you don't put anything at all for security (I only mention because I couldn't find a document on this either), ie:

root@beaglebone:/sys/class/gpio# cat /var/lib/connman/wifi.config
[service_home]
Type = wifi
Name = guest
root@beaglebone:/sys/class/gpio#

I would assume your attempt at 'rsn' is correct.. Looking at the latest sourc code, these appear to be the valid options:


static enum connman_service_security convert_wifi_security(const char *security)
{
if (security == NULL)
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_UNKNOWN;
else if (g_str_equal(security, "none") == TRUE)
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_NONE;
else if (g_str_equal(security, "wep") == TRUE)
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_WEP;
else if (g_str_equal(security, "psk") == TRUE)
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_PSK;
else if (g_str_equal(security, "ieee8021x") == TRUE)
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_8021X;
else if (g_str_equal(security, "wpa") == TRUE)
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_WPA;
else if (g_str_equal(security, "rsn") == TRUE)
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_RSN;
else
return CONNMAN_SERVICE_SECURITY_UNKNOWN;
}


It's unclear to me that if you use RSN if it wants the ascii pass phrase you've specified or the hexadecimal conversion that's salted with the ssid.

[ow3n]

Here is my connman config:

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#cat /var/lib/connman/wifi.config
[service_home]
Type = wifi
Name = <router-name>
Security = wpa2
Passphrase = PASSWORD

But I also have a wpa_supplicant.conf which I think conman is using instead, and which uses: "WPA-PSK"

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# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
network={
        ssid="<router-name>"
        scan_ssid=1
        proto=RSN
        pairwise=CCMP TKIP
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk=d8cddca582e46e1f27b4123eb519ab9a36b068e71d3861fcab4f1bb3699f9062
}

[JakeJake]

I had WiFi working on my BBone last weekend. I set "security = wpa" and though my Apple Airport Extreme (AE) is set for WPA2, once I disabled access control in the AE (it was locked down by MAC address) the BBone connected fine, provided I stayed close to the AE.

If I enabled Access Control and added the BBone's MAC, it would not connect.

I was not trying to use any keys. Only the router SSID and Password. As stated earlier, I don't think the BBone supports WPA2.