Getting WICD to connect to MWireless

Note: There’s apparently a bug which results in “Bad Password” errors. Using PEAP with GTC may work.

1. Save the following into a file called “peap-mschapv2” in /etc/wicd/encrytion/templates:

name = PEAP-MSCHAPV2
version = 1
require identity *Identity password *Password
optional ca_cert *Path_to_CA_Cert
-----
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
      ssid="$_ESSID"
      scan_ssid=$_SCAN
      proto=RSN WPA
      key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
      pairwise=CCMP TKIP
      group=CCMP TKIP
      eap=PEAP
      identity="$_IDENTITY"
      password="$_PASSWORD"
      ca_cert="$_CA_CERT"
      phase1="peaplavel=0"
      phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
}

2. In the same directory, append the line “peap-mschapv2” to the end of file active.
3. Restart WICD, and when connecting to MWireless, choose the new PEAP-MSCHAPV2 encryption option. Identity and Password are your Kerberos account, and Path to CA cert is the path to the security certificate available here.

Reference: http://kb.iu.edu/data/bbtc.html

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