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!