wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN).

This page describes how to connect to the BFH wireless networks via wpa_supplicant. It is for those of us who are not luxurious enough (or too arrogant in my case) to be able to use a fancy GUI-tool.

Without further ado, this wpa_supplicant configuration necessary to be able to connect to the network:

# Locked BFH network
network={
    ssid="bfh"
    key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X
    eap=PEAP
    auth_alg=OPEN
    phase1="peaplabel=0"
    phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
    identity="insert-your-bfh-identity-here"
    password="insert-your-password-here"
    priority=100
}

# Open BFH network
network={
    ssid="public-bfh"
    key_mgmt=NONE
    priority=0
}

If you experience problems, with this configuration, you can always increase the debugging level -d or -dd. If first-level authentication fails, you can try to set the phase1=“peaplabel=1”.

Note: This configuration was tested and is in fact working in Bern

wpa_supplicant is available from all major package management systems:

• Ubuntu/Debian: apt-get install wpasupplicant
• Gentoo: emerge -av wpa_supplicant
• Arch: pacman -S wpa_supplicant
• Redhat/Fedora: yum install wpa_supplicant
• SUSE/openSUSE: zypper install wpa_supplicant
• FreeBSD: cd /usr/ports/security/wpa_supplicant/ && make install or pkg_add -vrf wpa_supplicant

If your mood is especially adventurous today, you can even compile it from source: http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/