[luci] Engenius hotspot extender with LuCI Trunk (0.12+svn-r10522) and trying to connect to Proximus_auto_fon

Br Ol accbrol at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 14:26:40 CET 2016


Hi Daniel,

I received a workaround from EnGenius and now it is working.
grtz,
Ph.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I bumped into the same problem a couple of days ago and suggested
> a fix. However, the situation is a more complex, see
> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2016-January/038518.html
>
> I'm working on a final fix which will allow all EAP variants to be
> modelled properly in UCI and yet remain compatible with existing
> configurations and user-interfaces.
>
> In the meantime, try eddting /etc/config/network (or use the uci
> command-line tool) and prepend 'auth=' to the auth uci option,
> resulting in 'auth=MSCHAPV2' being the value of the configuration
> variable. This should work until a proper fix made it upstream.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 02:43:39PM +0100, Br Ol wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I bought an Engenius Hotspot extender
>> (http://engenius-europe.com/index.php/product-zoo/hotspot-extender-for-motorhome-yacht-campsite)
>> and I want to use it to connect to the FON network in Belgium.
>> There is an open fon network and they also have a closed fon network
>> (faster, more secure) so I want to connect to the closed FON network
>> for sure.
>> I can connect to it with my windows 10 laptop without a problem so my
>> account information is correct
>> When I try with my hotspot extender, it doesn't work.
>>
>> According to Proximus, they use the following settings:
>> - 802.11 g
>> - WPA2 Enterprise
>> - EAP - TTLS
>> - MSCHAPv2
>>
>> I checked the following URL's for info:
>> http://stdio.be/blog/2015-09-09-OpenWRT-config-for-connecting-to-Proximus-FON-encrypted-SSID/
>> https://nxadm.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/post-it-proximus_auto_fon-and-telenetwifree-belgium-from-gnulinux-or-windows-7/
>> https://www.proximus.be/support/en/id_sfaqr_hot_connect/personal/support/internet/internet-on-the-go/surf-fon-hotspot-wifi-hotspots/connect-to-a-wi-fi-hotspot.html
>>
>> In my settings I enter the following:
>>
>> Encryption: WPA2-EAP   (also tried WPA-EAP)
>> cipher: auto (also tried FORCE CCMP (AES) )
>> EAP-Method: TTLS
>> CA-cert: ==> used the one from
>> http://stdio.be/blog/2015-09-09-OpenWRT-config-for-connecting-to-Proximus-FON-encrypted-SSID/
>>   ------ but also tried without one
>> Authentication: MSCHAPV2
>> Anonymous identity: [empty]  ----> tried also with "whatever at proximusfon.be"
>> Identity: my_login_account at proximusfon.be
>> Password: my_login_password
>>
>>
>> ...So the settings seem to be correct but I can't make a connection.
>> Any suggestions ?
>> Thanks.
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