Prostration and Supplication

Installed some Linux or other on a newish notebook. Tried setting up WLAN access.

wpa_supplicant keeps complaining about a bad passphrase. The thing is, I’ve been having the same problem on another, less newish notebook, and never found a fix – until the Wifi hardware on that one stopped working entirely.

Fix: Whatever default auth protocol wpa_supplicant uses, it isn’t WPA-PSK.

wpa_supplicant.conf:

network = {
    ssid="..."
--> proto=WPA2
--> key-mgmt=WPA-PSK
    psk="..."
}

Fixed.