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Questions tagged [802.1x]

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How do I find out if my wireless card supports 5 GHz?

I have the 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2200 (rev c4) How do I find out if that card/driver support 5 GHz?
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What 802.11ac (or later) WiFi dongles work with Linux 4.13 kernel

I want to get a WiFi dongle with the 802.11AC or later standard that is compatible with Linux 4.13 (with Ubuntu 17.10) for a desktop PC (Streacom FC8 mini unit), 64 bit, intel core i3-2130). Context: I have an Ethernet connection but a flatmate…
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WPA_CLI showing access point as connected when it shouldn't

I'm using linux kernel 3.3 and am trying to use the wpa_cli utility to monitor the status of my WiFi connection. I'm using an Edimax WiFi dongle to connect to a wireless access point. Normally I see something like this: # wpa_cli status Selected…
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Disable rate control in linux wireless driver

I need to evaluate the performance of a few wireless cards at different bitrates. I found out that "minstrel" algorithm continuously adjusts this rate. Can someone point me to 'how I can manually set the bit-rate for these wireless cards'? NOTE:…
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from Windows 802.1X connection instructions to linux

Was looking for PEAP tutorials for raspbian but didn't found any solution so far. In our manual for the LAN-connection to our network are following steps: Activate IEEE 802.1X-authentification Set Userauthentification as…
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Convert a WPA2-Enterprise EDUROAM connection in NetworkManager to a system connection

I am a student at an university which has eduroam, a WPA2-Enterprise wireless network. On my account this is configured using NetworkManager. This is the overview of nm-connection-editor: I have marked that this is a system connection by saying…
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802.11ac USB dongle support in Linux

(cross-post from Network Engineering community) Is it reasonable to expect to be able to get a 802.11ac dual-band USB wireless dongle to work correctly on Debian (wheezy) on an ARM platform (using one of 3.0.x, 3.4.x, 3.8.x kernel)? I have been…
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802.1X authentication with NetworkManager

I have a plain DHCP wired connection at home, and a wired connection secured with 802.1X at the office. I need to use the right parameters in each location. I've configured both connections with NetworkManager, but now when I'm at home the NM GUI…
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How do I generate the certificates for EAP-TLS Wi-Fi?

I want to connect a Linux machine to WPA2 Enterprise Wi-Fi (that I manage). The certificates I created with OpenSSL work well with Android and iOS devices, but I can't figure out what types of certificates are expected by wpa_supplicant. Basically,…
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Denied association (code=12) when connecting to 5GHz WLAN

I'm using the Archer T2U as a WLAN adapter on my Debian machine and I cannot connect to my 5GHz home network. I can connect to my 2.4GHz network without any problems. lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 148f:761a Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7610U ("Archer…
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How to connect to a hidden network with nmcli?

I can connect to a hidden network knowing the SSID that the router/hotspot has set: CONNECTION_NAME=hidden-wifi INTERFACE=wlp0s20u1 nmcli con add type wifi ifname $INTERFACE con-name $CONNECTION_NAME ssid $SSID nmcli con modify 802-11-wireless.bssid…
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Freeradius doesn't see its WAP-Client

I have Freeradius v.3 Server and WAccessPoint (hostapd), both on the same machine (localhost) Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 installed. I tested my connection firstly without freeradius -> I can connect to WAP and use Internet through NAS and MASQUERADE.…
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How can I count 802.11 beacons from a SSID network I'm connected to?

Does anyone know of a way to count 802.11 beacons for the network you're already connected to? Doesn't matter if its an Access Point or Adhoc network as both will issue 802.11 beacons. I'm asking this question from a Linux platform perspective.…
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Layer 2 handover

I want to know why a device can go from AP to AP without interruption. I do ping to a computer and when I connect to other different AP it is not interrupted. Why¿? Thank you in advance
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wpa_supplicant not connecting anymore to eduroam

since a few weeks (probably after a dist-upgrade) my machine can't connect anymore to 802.1x networks. I'm using Debian Buster with i3, but using nm-applet. I've also tryied to connect directly with wpa_supplicant but it doesn't work either. This is…
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