wireless wpa2/enterprise authentication issues

[Dusty Baker]

Using Linux Mint 15 and trying to connect to wireless ssid with wpa2/enterprise certificate authentication. When I create the key file with openssl I enter the private key password. When trying to access the wireless with this key and certificate it keeps asking for this password when trying to authenticate. It should except my private key password and connect me to wireless. This same setup worked on Ubuntu 11.04 for me (this is the distro I was on before I switched to Mint 15) and another user has verified wpa2/enterprise working with Linux Mint 14. This issues happens always as I have not been able to get it to connect using wpa2/enterprise with certificates. To reproduce it you will need to setup wpa2/enterprise wireless and try to authenticate or I can test anything you need or provide output. Please see some more details from the blog at:

http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=135462&sid=f4d7b54f0acd39937a54b4527ce4afa5

Thanks and let me know if you need me to try anything else.
Dusty

[R. E. (remi-48-073e)]

I'm having the same authentication problem with wpa2/entreprise (everything matches the problem described in forum). I get similar error logs:
     OpenSSL: openssl_handshake - SSL_connect error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

My network device is:
    03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)

My laptop is a lenovo T430, running mint 15. The same machine with the same access points was working with mint 14.

[R. E. (remi-48-073e)]

This might be very related:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1104476

[R. E. (remi-48-073e)]

I found a workaround for my network, also working for eduroam.
Here illustrated with eduroam.

1) configure your network properly with the network manager, it will fail to authenticate

2) run the following in order to edit as root
        sudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/eduroam
       (replace eduroam by your network)

3) in the editor replace "system-ca-certs=true" by "system-ca-certs=false" (or even just remove the line)

4) reconnect using the network manager, and it should work

I hope this helps.

[Dusty Baker (dmbake88)]

Still no go for me. Tried it a few different ways by setting to false and removing the line. Actually setting it to false removed the line for me anyhow but I still can't get it to authenticate. I'm not sure if eduroam uses client certs or not but for my network I have a cert and a key and I can't seem to authenticate. I tried without a CA cert and with the server CA cert I got the client cert from. I will keep playing around with it when time permits but at this point I'm back to guest wireless with VPN. I read the link you sent and it does seem like most of the people there were able to get things working with this fix but there were a few that still were not authenticating. I guess I'm one of those few now.

Dusty

[vigneshwaran (vigneshwaran2007)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1187483/comments/3 workaround seems to work for me. Thanks R.E.

[王晓哲 (chaoslawful)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1187483/comments/3 workaround works for me. Thanks R.E.

[Rodrigo Virote Kassick (kassick)]

Also on Ubuntu 13.10, networm-manager=0.9.8.0-0ubuntu22

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1187483/comments/3 workaround works for me.

[Tavis Elliott (tavise)]

Linux Mint 15, https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1187483/comments/3 workaround works for me.
You rock R. E.!

[Martin Eisenhardt (martin-eisenhardt)]

Confirm this bug in Xubuntu 13.10 (no surprise, as Ubuntu 13.10 is affected), and the workaround in https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1187483/comments/3 is working for me as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.