5 years of support..!!??
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Fri Mar 2 19:34:22 UTC 2012
gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, March 02, 2012 12:46:04 PM Nils Kassube did opine:
> > auto wlan0
> > iface wlan0 inet static
> > # Configuration for WPA2 / CCMP
> >
> > wpa-driver wext
> > wpa-ssid MYSSID
> > wpa-ap-scan 2
> > wpa-proto WPA2
> > wpa-pairwise CCMP
> > wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> > wpa-psk long hash phrase
> > # psk from the command "wpa_passphrase MYSSID passphrase"
> > address 192.168.2.59
> > network 192.168.2.0
> > netmask 255.255.255.0
> > broadcast 192.168.2.255
> > gateway 192.168.2.1
>
> Interesting.
>
> Where are the manpages that explain all these wpa-**** settings?
Good question! I had to search a bit to find the file with the relevant
info which I probably used: /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz
What I didn't mention, though: If you use that static setup you should
write your nameserver to "/etc/resolv.conf".
> However, my interfaces file is much simpler than that, and I never
> heard of that command you used to generate the key hash.
It comes with the wpasupplicant package.
> Here, I
> have it setup using a phrase that could be the opening paragraph of
> a novel I'll likely never write, but which is easy enough for me to
> remember. A neighbors frontier net connection went south just this
> past Monday & she brought her winders lappy over, I entered that
> 160+ character passphrase and it worked flawlessly.
160+ characters? For a WPA/WPA2 passphrase there is a limit of 63
characters. I suppose I used something like "pwgen -cns 63" to generate
the passphrase - it is stored in a text file and copy & paste prevents
typos.
> Your recipe above, with mods because I too use fixed addresses on my
> home network, may be just what the doctor ordered, thank you very
> much for sharing. I did wipe out that hash though, no use
> propagating that all over the cosmos leading to an exploit of your
> system.
LOL! Of course it wasn't my hash, but thanks for your concern. Actually
I literally used the command mentioned to get the hash.
Nils
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