RB5 unable to connect to hotspot

Francesco Jacomel

I've been trying to connect to different wifi networks and I'm unable to succeed on that.
WPA supplicant file is being updated as below:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

network={
#WPA-PSK
        ssid="Test1"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk="abcdefgh"
}

And I just can't see any error but the connection is not established. Test1 is a hotspot on my cellphone, should I use WPA2-PSK instead?

Hotspot settings are as follows:

SSID:	Test1
Protocol:	Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n)
Security type:	WPA2-Personal
Network band:	2.4 GHz
Network channel:	1

Thanks

modaltb

Hi @Francesco-Jacomel ,

This is an example of our WPA supplicant used at the factory during setup:

# Only WPA-PSK is used. Any valid cipher combination is accepted.
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

network={
	ssid="Foo"
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	pairwise=TKIP CCMP
	group=TKIP CCMP
	psk="Bar"
}
wowlan_triggers=magic_pkt

These got things connected on our network. I've not dug into the params myself though so 'use at own security risk'

tom

@Francesco-Jacomel Are you rebooting your RB5 Flight after modifying the wpa_supplicant file?

Francesco Jacomel

@modaltb It's the pretty same as I have here. I've tried keeping the pairwise and group for some attempts but also didn't work.

Francesco Jacomel

@tom Yep, after any change on the file I'm rebooting.

tom

@Francesco-Jacomel Are you able to connect to any WiFi network? i.e. your home / office network?

Francesco Jacomel

@tom I've tried two different networks so far, one from my company so a firewall might be affecting the connection attempt through WPA, other using my iPhone Hotspot which is WPA2 so I'm unsure whether this might be an issue. I'm setting up a new one with no restrictions (no firewall, no wpa2).

I'll update here accordingly.
Thanks

Francesco Jacomel

I've set up a new network with very few restrictions and now it is connected to the network! Thank you very much for your support!

tom

@Francesco-Jacomel Great! Thanks for investigating that, our test network is fairly open security-wise so we hadn't run into that issue.

justinGE

Not to necro a thread, but if you're using WPA2 you need to supply a country code at the top of the wpa_supplicant such as

# Only WPA-PSK is used. Any valid cipher combination is accepted.
country=US
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

network={
	ssid="Foo"
	psk="Bar"
}
wowlan_triggers=magic_pkt

I was having trouble connecting to our local internet until I did this.

tom

@justinGE This is good information, thanks for sharing!