Configuring and Testing Freeradius on debian

I'm trying to set up a freeradius server on debian (LTS kernel 3.2.0.4amd64; Wheezy 7.10) it seems to want to use freeradius version 2.1.12 Installing the package wasn't a big deal (**apt-get install freeradius**) and I've tried following some guides for configuring it but none of my tested configurations worked, and I couldn't figure out how to test if the server was even working to begin with in my console. I saw some guides using commands to test the server from the host but these commands weren't available on my system... I did my best to try and follow this guide and also tried digging through the official how-to but I simply couldn't figure out why things weren't working... I'm trying to set it up for my wireless router's WPA2-Enterprise wlan security option. It is configured thusly: (I know the port is not the default, I did not forget to configure this in the settings files of course) So, how am I supposed to do this? I need to be able to connect from Windows and Linux clients. ifconfig: root@VAULT:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:60:00:c0:43:54 inet addr:192.168.1.62 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14879878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11963411 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:15827735362 (14.7 GiB) TX bytes:13994998174 (13.0 GiB) Interrupt:43 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:12570 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12570 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1558356 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:1558356 (1.4 MiB)