thanks Yvan, looking at debug, I saw : Ignoring EAP-Type/tls because we do not have OpenSSL support. Ignoring EAP-Type/ttls because we do not have OpenSSL support. Ignoring EAP-Type/peap because we do not have OpenSSL support. So: I installed that : apt-get install openssl apt-get install libssl-devdebian:/usr/local/etc/raddb apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev debian:/tmp/freeradius-server-2.1.7# dpkg -l | grep ssl ii libcurl4-openssl-dev 7.18.2-8lenny3 Development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL) ii libssl-dev 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 SSL development libraries, header files and documentation ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 SSL shared libraries ii openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic too Then I removed freeradius rm -rf /usr/local/etc/raddb rm -rf /usr/local/etc/raddb and reinstalled it (./configure, make, make install) but error messages about ignoring EAP-Type stay alive. Do you have an idea ? Could it be my problem. Jacques who go in bed right now