This guide is made on the basis of this thread: WRT54GL wired 8021x TTLS PAP surfnet/eduroam/securew2 wpa_supplicant. A lot of tips and connection information to be typed in to the wpa.conf file can be found there.
This guide is identical to the guide for the Netgear WNDR3700 v2 which can be found here: WNDR3700 wired 8021x TTLS PAP surfnet/eduroam/securew2 wpa_supplicant
This is the guide for how to connect the WRT160NL to an 802.1x-authenticated network as a client so that your wireless appliances without the need for them to have 802.1x or to connect more units than allowed by the IT-department. Be aware that there might be security issues connected to this and I do not take responsibility to anything that might happen to you after following whole or parts of my guide.
The basis for this guide is WRT160NL and OpenWRT 10.03.1 and how to install OpenWRT on your router you will find at openwrt.org
How to:
1. Log in to the router with Telnet
telnet root@192.168.1.1
passwd #it will ask you to change router root password
reboot #it will reboot the router, not your pc, if you are in the right shell
2. Log in with SSH and install the following software
ssh root@192.168.1.1
cd /tmp
opkg update
opkg install nano #text editor
opkg install wpa-supplicant
3. Make a wpa-supplicant conf file which contains username and password to authenticate:
nano /etc/config/wpa.conf #opens text editor copy paste code in it
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=root ap_scan=0 network={ key_mgmt=IEEE8021X eap=PEAP pairwise=CCMP TKIP identity="username@uit.no" anonymous_identity="username@uit.no" password="password" phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2" priority=2 }#identity is just a example for Student Housing Internett, University of Tromsø, Norway
#if your university/institutions use different kind of encryption, please change accordingly.
#ctrl-x save yes and exit
4. Test authentication incase Internet/Authentication server is on WAN port:
wpa_supplicant -D wired -i eth1 -c /etc/config/wpa.conf &
#if it says something like successful press ctrl-c to quit
#try getting a ip-address from the Internet Provider
udhcpc -i eth1
#if authentication fails perform the wpa_supplicant command with -d or -dd for more verbose information
5. Create startup deamon, so you don't have to type all of this in case of the routers power fails or it restarts:
nano /etc/init.d/wpa #opens text editor copy paste code in it
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common # Example script # Copyright (C) 2007 OpenWrt.org START=99 start() { echo start wpa_supplicant -D wired -i eth1 -c /etc/config/wpa.conf & }#ctrl-x save yes and exit
chmod +x /etc/init.d/wpa
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/wpa
/etc/init.d/wpa enable
reboot
6. Finished, setup Wifi/Access-Point wpa2 encryption etc, can be done in web-interface!
If you are not finished because you don't understand step 2 telnet and step 3 ssh, it might be because you have to type these commands into a "shell". For Mac OS X go to Utilities>Terminal for Ubuntu Linux go to Accessories>Terminal for Windows install putty.
I suggest Windows users to download a LiveCD like Ubuntu burn it, boot PC from the LiveCD and perform these steps... it might make more sense...
(Last edited by marstein on 7 Aug 2012, 18:38)
