How to connect to a Wifi AP w/o much information from its provider

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Thu Oct 15 09:47:03 UTC 2020


15.10.2020 13:02, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> The school of my son offers Wifi to the pupil. The SSID is "Schueler"
> and each of the kids has a login and password assigned from the school. Not more
> information. An iPhone connects out of the box by just asking for the
> two values (login/password). With our wpa_supplicant I couldn't get how to
> set accepted values.
> 
> I have here what the ifconfig command on my laptops says about the AP values:
> 
> 
> # ifconfig -v wlan0 list ap | egrep 'SSID/MESH|Schueler'
> 
> Schueler         20:a6:cd:04:d8:63    6   54M  -73:-96   100 EPS  SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<6> TIM<050400010000> ERP<0x0> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x1ad param 0x17 mcsset[0-15] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 6, 0,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> WME<qosinfo 0x80 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]> VEN<dd07000b8601040809>

This looks like "WPA-Enterprise" authentication method,
see section 31.3.4.1.3.2 of the Handbook:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html




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