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urcindalo l33t

Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 623 Location: Almeria, Spain
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:10 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Can't WiFi after messing with wpa_passphrase |
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Hi!
To make a long story short, I had a perfectly working WiFi connection to the 5GHz SSID from my router until I tried to get wifi on after booting up but before loggin into KDE.
As far as I can recall, the only change I don't know how to revert is having issued a Code: | /usr/bin/wpa_passphrase My_WiFi | command as root, getting this result:
Code: | # /usr/bin/wpa_passphrase My_WiFi
# reading passphrase from stdin
MyPassWord
network={
ssid="My_WiFi"
#psk="MyPassWord"
psk=abbf7f7e762824f6badc64e7225d3a3e1a195310f5d55684f9af0c9670bc50f3
}
# |
Now, I can't even log into My_WiFi from within KDE: the NetworkManager applet continuously asks me for the password, even though is it correctly configured and the password is correctly entered (both in the popping up dialog box and in the applet config).
However, I can still connect to the regular 2.4GHz SSID, the configuration of which I left untouched.
Is this some file permissions issue? Is it something else?
I'm completely clueless.
Last edited by urcindalo on Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:10 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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charles17 Advocate

Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3686
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 6:15 am Post subject: |
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psk in your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf needs to exactly match the psk set in your router.
Does it? And why not simply enter it in wpa_gui ? |
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urcindalo l33t

Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 623 Location: Almeria, Spain
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'm so stupid you could cut my idiocy with a knife!
It turns out I was entering the wrong password. I like to customize the WiFi SSIDs and passwords, but my router needs at least a 15-character password for each WiFi. My regular password has 14, so I used my regular one but adding a # at the end for it to be accepted by the router. However, I'm so dumb I was entering the password without the final #
As a result of all this, I also solved my original problem: by adding the new WiFi config to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, my box now gets connected before I log into KDE  |
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