"Path to CA Cert" in WICD?

[Rick Bilonick]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 09:30 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 09:22 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 09:08 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > > I used to use NetworkManager under 8.04 to connect to WPA 2 with PEAP
> > > and TKIP. Doesn't work under 8.10. So I installed WICD but in addition
> > > to the identity and password, it wants "Path to CA Cert". I have no idea
> > > what to put here. If I leave it blank, WICD complains. If memory serves,
> > > NM would ask about it, but you could just select "none" (but "none"
> > > won't work).
> > > 
> > > Rick B.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I checked my Fedora 8 computer and see that it uses ca-bundle.crt in the
> > wpa_supplicant.conf (actually ca_cert="/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem"
> > but cert.pem is linked to ca-bundle.crt). So I found
> > 
> > /usr/share/apps/kssl/ca-bundle.crt
> > 
> > and tried this but still won't connect.
> > 
> > Rick B.
> > 
> > 
> 
> OK, so I copied my ca-bundle.crt from the Fedora 8 laptop to the Ubuntu
> 8.10 laptop, and tried that certificate and lo and behold it worked.
> What I don't understand is, where does the certificate come from in the
> first place and why didn't the ca-bundle in Ubuntu work? I looked at the
> two versions and they appear to be very different.
> 
> Rick B.
> 
> 

Now I'm wondering about why NetworkManager under 8.10 would not do WPA
2. (It worked fine under 8.04.) Maybe the problem was the ca-bundle.crt
file.

Rick