WPA-PSK on Thinkpad T40

[alan]

Ok, I apologize for this, but I understand the iwlist request that
replies with the wpa-psk of 26 hex char length.  This sounds suspicious
to me.  A lot of times, windows will cover up for our
misinterpretations.  I know you believe this not to be a wep network
but have you tried it as a wep hex key?
I don't believe it will work but it may be worth a try.


On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:04:02 +0100
Stephen Bosch <posting at vodacomm.ca> wrote:

> Okay, well, I tried it frontwards, backwards and sideways, and nothing
> is working. Comments below.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Bosch <posting at vodacomm.ca>
> wrote:
> > Hi, Brian, thanks for the reply.
> >
> > My comments below:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Brian Bender
> > <d6p0d8f02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Stephen Bosch
> >> posting-at-vodacomm.ca |hostaplist/Allow to me|
> >> <ap7zwsp4mt at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The problem is that my psk is 26 characters, and this works with
> >>> other operating systems, so I don't understand why wpa_supplicant
> >>> should be rejecting it.
> >>
> >> Your network's passphrase is a string that just happens to look
> >> like a hex number. It's still just a string to the algorithm that
> >> uses it -- are you sure you entered it correctly? It's a
> >> _case-sensitive_ string, for one thing...
> >
> > Well, I entered it, exactly as I have it on record, in Windows,
> > where it works, or you wouldn't be reading this message :)
> >
> > I have tried it, in quotation marks, in exactly that form.
> > wpa_supplicant accepts it, but the handshake fails. Perhaps the
> > problem is not in the PSK, but the output doesn't provide an obvious
> > (at least, to me) clue. At any rate, it fails with the classic error
> > message:
> >
> > "WPA: 4-Way Handshake failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect"
> >
> > The form in my example is with lowercase letters, which was an
> > experiment to see if that would make any difference. I have not
> > tested it with quotation marks yet.
> 
> I have now tried it:
> 
> psk="hex_lowercase" (accepted, but handshake fails)
> psk="hex_uppercase" (accepted, but handshake fails)
> psk=hex_lowercase (fails to parse)
> psk=hex_uppercase (fails to parse)
> psk=[hex_key_generated_with_wpa_passphrase_using_SSID_and_lowercase_hex_original]
> (accepted, but handshake fails)
> psk=[hex_key_generated_with_wpa_passphrase_using_SSID_and_uppercase_hex_original]
> (accepted, but handshake fails)
> 
> The verbose debug output doesn't clearly (to me, at least) why it is
> failing, apart from the already mentioned error message.
> 
> All other things being equal, one would intuitively suspect an
> incorrect passphrase, but I have configured the wireless network here
> twice, and in both cases I used it exactly as I have typed it in the
> examples. I have double and triple-checked them. I would be prepared
> to try the passphrase again using the working OS, just to make
> absolutely sure... but if it does turn out to be incorrect then I'm
> going to lose all my connectivity, so I'd want to wait until my
> roommate is back.
> 
> Just FYI, when I do an iwlist eth1 scan and look at the details for
> the WLAN in question, it says it is a WPA Version 1, pairwise TKIP and
> TKIP cipher network. Which is how I have it configured in
> wpa_supplicant.conf.
> 
> I'm stumped. What am I missing here?
> 
> -Stephen-
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