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justin_brody
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 1:39 pm    Post subject: wpa_supplicant not matching SSID Reply with quote

Hello!

I am trying to set up my wpa_supplicant.conf to automatically connect to a network. Here's the relevant lines from the file:
Code:

network={
        ssid="GoucherWIFI"
        scan_ssid=1
        eap=PEAP
        identity="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
        password="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
        priority=5
}

It somehow doesn't match GoucherWIFI though. When I run
Code:

wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -C/var/run/wpa_supplicant/ -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd

I get the following line in the output
Quote:

wlan0: 0: 02:18:5a:ab:c0:90 ssid='GoucherWIFI' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=24 caps=0x1111 level=-55 freq=5745
wlan0: skip - SSID mismatch


If I scan for the network and connect using wpa_gui it works fine; just not sure why the config file isn't matching the SSID. Anyone have any thoughts??
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I curious, what happens if you omit scan_ssid=, eap= and priority=
I'm asking, b/c here just those 3 lines are ok,rg.: :
Code:
network={
        ssid="chaos_im_aether"
        psk="blafablafa"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
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justin_brody
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the thought toralf! Unfortunately commenting those out keeps the same behavior.

I just noticed that there's a line earlier in the output
Quote:

Priority group 5
id=0 ssid='xxx'
id=4 ssid='GoucherWIFI'
id=5 ssid='xxx'
id=6 ssid='xxx'


which seems to indicate that it does know that SSID. Strange!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

May it helps, my wpa_supplicant.conf looks like:

Code:

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=1
ap_scan=1


network={
        ssid="2StNB_219"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk="***********"
        priority=3
}
 
...




what's the output of $wpa_cli scan_results
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justin_brody
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the tip xilinx! I'm away from the network I'm trying to use now, but your post makes me wonder if I want to try ap_scan=2. I'll give it a shot and report back tomorrow; along with $wpa_cli scan_results.

Many thanks!
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