wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Hi to all
I have been observing this forum for some time, and will soon buy an N800, now that Skype and Google Docs seem to work fine on it.
Since my university has TTLS security, getting wpa_supplicant to run is absolutely essential for me. So I downloaded the vmware image and cross compiled wpa_supplicant using scratchbox.
I had no compile errors with the following .config file
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y
CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y
CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y
CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y
CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y
CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
CONFIG_EAP_GPSK=y
CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y
I was wondering whether I need to add more flags, or this is enough. Specifically, I would need some pointers on the driver/wireless card model in use on the N800...
I would be happy to send the binaries to anyone wiling to test them out on the N800 itself...

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

My uni uses PEAP (I think), and so I'd definitely be interested. Did you need any dependencies for WPA_Supplicant? I have the INdT VMWare SDK w/scratchbox for Bora - is it a simple download and compile? Are there debian control files (to create a deb) included and/or have you tried recompiling the source from e.g. Ubuntu?

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Hi Ryan,
I have used the shoutbox environment in the vmware image...compiled for ARMEL, with cpu transparency turned on. No errors on compile.
Please find the binaries here
http://siavush.googlepages.com/wpa3.tar
give them a go, i haven't packaged them. You just need to run wpa_supplicant with the appropriate switches - the readme is fairly comprehensive
http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitw...plicant/README
Of course, it might not yield anything - hopefully by knowing more on the wireless module of the N800 we might hack together something better.
I consider wpa_supplicant to be really essential in a great number of scenarios, hopefully we shall have it up and running soon...

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Seem to work fine? Based on what information?

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/cx3110x/

Not supported by wpa_supplicant in any form that I was able to find. GL. :)

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Hi linuxbox!

Perhabs you know it already: The N800 offers TTLS security out of the box. But it allows only the authentification protocols "EAP-GTC", "EAP-MSCHAPv2" and "MSCHAPv2" in combination with TTLS.

For this reason I'm also very interested in wpa_supplicant because my university in Germany uses TTLS with PAP authentification. Nokia doesn't support PAP with TTLS in any of their mobile devices.

My university has published a online manual (only in german language) how to connect to the WLAN using a Linux computer. There they say, that the use of the packages "wpa_supplicant" and "wireless-tools" would be essential. I don't know if Wireless tools is already compiled for the N800, but it is listed under maemo.org: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/tools

I hope this information will be helpful for you. Unfortunately I'm not so used to linux that I could compile something for my own. So please let me know if you've made any progress! Thank you!

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

If I recall correctly wireless-tools was available for the 770 tablet...

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Wireless tools is available for the n800.

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Please tell me where did you find a binary for the N800? On the maemo page for wireless tools there is stated the following homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...nux/Tools.html

But on this homepage I'm not able to find anything about N800/N770 or similar. There are many contributions available on the download site, but I don't see anything for the Nokia IT.

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

thanks...I will recompile wpa_supplicant against wireless-tools, that should hopefully yield a working binary, which I will post by end of today. Is anyone willing/ready to beta test it?
cheers

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Yes, I definitely would like to beta test it. Nevertheless I'm not sure, if my desktop linux experience will be enough. But I will try it :) Thanks in advance!

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

I cannot find which repository it came from (I have many repo's set up), the only information as to where it came from is that it is maintained by guus@debian.org and another similar package by collin@betaversion.net.

There are actually 2 packages in my app manager for the tools... one named: wirelesstools 28-1 (96kB) and the other wireless-tools 28-1 (0.1mB), apparantely they are pretty close to being the same.

Sorry, but that is all of the info I can give you... if come across them again I'll post the URL

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

:) Ok, I've found one of them. It is included in http://repository.maemo.org/
But it is only visible when you are in red pill mode... Seems I've to learn many things... Thanks anyway!

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Aha... sorry... forgot to mention that :cool:

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Did anyone manage to connect using wpasupplicant ? Any updates ?

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

I don't know. The version compiled by linuxbox on 07-01-2007 does run, but it says: "No driver interfaces build into wpa_supplicant."
I guess that the driver is the biggest problem. Does anybody know if the generic linux wlan driver "wext" will work with the wlan adapter built in the N800?

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Strange, I've heard people saying google docs and other Ajax based websites don't work on N800 (or any other internet tablet for that matter). Are you sure that they work?

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

Minimo as well as the new Firefox based Microbrowser that recently became available allows the N800 to utilize a lot of Web 2.0ish sites. Microbrowser is pretty far from being release ready, though and wouldn't recommend it to anyone without a high frustration tolerance quotient.

Re: wpa_supplicant compiled for N800
 

And it's not that all Ajax doesn't work, it's more that _some_ Ajax sites don't work. gmail works, for example (standard mode, not just basic html). Anyway, that is Opera. As the previous poster said, even more stuff works in MicroB and to some degree minimo.