How to install wpa supplicant
Revision as of 16:29, 22 September 2005 by 213.39.195.152 (Talk)
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Installing wpa_supplicant with madwifi support
- Get the source see link below
- Edit .config
.config
CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y # Change include directories to match with the local setup CFLAGS += -I../madwif CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y # EAP-MD5 (automatically included if EAP-TTLS is enabled) CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y # EAP-MSCHAPv2 (automatically included if EAP-PEAP is enabled) CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y # EAP-TLS CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y # EAL-PEAP CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y # EAP-TTLS CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y # EAP-GTC CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y # EAP-OTP CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y # LEAP CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y # PKCS#12 (PFX) support (used to read private key and certificate file from # a file that usually has extension .p12 or .pfx) CONFIG_PKCS12=y # Include control interface for external programs, e.g, wpa_cli CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE=y
- install wpa_supplicant by make && make install
Configuration for WPA-PSK
- Edit wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 eapol_version=1 # ap_scan=2 was the one for me you may try 0 or 1 indstead of 2 ap_scan=2 fast_reauth=1
network={ ssid="" proto=WPA key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP psk= }
You have to change the values according to the response of "wpa_passphrase yourAPssid yourpassphrase ".
Starting wpa_supplicant
Make sure that the modules ath_pci,ath_hal,ath_rate_sample,wlan,wlan_tkip,wlan_xauth are loaded (lsmod).
Now you are able to start wpa_supplicant by "wpa_supplicant -d -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iath0 -Dmadwifi ". If every thing works as expected, you can replace -d by -B for the deamon mode.
Bring up my network card manual by "ifconfig ath0 ip up" and changing the routes and add the default gateway.
Bringing up the device at boot for gentoo users:
- Make a symbolic link ln -s net.lo net.ath0 in /etc/init.d/
- Copy wpa_supplicant.conf to /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant
- Edit /etc/conf.d/net
wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" wpa_timeout_ath0=60 config_ath0=("yourip netmask 255.255.255.0") routes_ath0=("default gw yourgateway")
- Add net.ath0 to runlevel by "rc-update add net.ath0 default"
- Make sure all needed modules are in /etc/modules.autoloa.d/2.x