wpa_supplicant/README



    1 README for wpa_supplicant
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    4 REQUIREMENTS
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    6 Kernel driver for your wireless card, e.g. ndiswrapper or ipw2100. 
    7 See the wpa_supplicant homepage for supported drivers.
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   10 PRE-INSTALL
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   13 POST-INSTALL
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   15 1. Create a network setup for wpa_supplicant:
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   17    wpa_passphrase <ssid> <your_secret> >> /etc/wpa.conf
   18 
   19    See the sample configuration file wpa_supplicant.conf in the
   20    sources for a complete description of the available options 
   21    for wpa_supplicant. 
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   23 2. Change your wlan start script to use wpa_supplicant.
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   25    Following an example for the centrino ipw2100 driver, no need 
   26    to do anything with iwconfig:
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   28    /sbin/modprobe ipw2100
   29    /sbin/ifconfig eth1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx
   30    /sbin/route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
   31    /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -Dnl80211 -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa.conf
   32 
   33    Note: the above configuration makes use of the generic nl80211
   34          wpa_supplicant driver, which is the preferred nowadays 
   35          and supersedes the wext (wireless extensions) driver.
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   37 PRECAUTION
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   39 As off version 0.6.8 the -w option of wpa_supplicant was removed.
   40 See the ChangeLog for more infos. This may cause troubles because
   41 using the -w option was the recommend way to start wpa_supplicant
   42 until version 0.6.