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Juergen Daubert 9dd6246e6f [notify] wpa_supplicant: default configuration file is /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf NOTE: ----- As of version 6.0 dhcpcd includes a hook, 10-wpa_supplicant, that starts wpa_supplicant for wireless interfaces. The hook expects that the default configuration file of wpa_supplicant is /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Unfortunately our port is using /etc/wpa.conf as the default. I've changed that with the current commit to /etc/wpa_supplicant. To keep your current configuration a symlink to wpa.conf is installed as well for now, but might be removed in future versions of the port. It's possible to define the configuration name with a wpa_supplicant_conf=/etc/wpa.conf in /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd.enter-hook but using the default name is preferable. Sorry for the inconvenience.		2013-07-10 13:03:01 +02:00
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.footprint	[notify] wpa_supplicant: default configuration file is /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf	2013-07-10 13:03:01 +02:00
.md5sum	wpa_supplicant: update to 2.0	2013-01-13 10:08:02 +01:00
Pkgfile	[notify] wpa_supplicant: default configuration file is /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf	2013-07-10 13:03:01 +02:00
README	[notify] wpa_supplicant: added support for nl80211 configuration interface, new dependency libnl	2012-01-23 18:47:06 +01:00

README

README for wpa_supplicant


REQUIREMENTS

Kernel driver for your wireless card, e.g. ndiswrapper or ipw2100. 
See the wpa_supplicant homepage for supported drivers.


PRE-INSTALL


POST-INSTALL

1. Create a network setup for wpa_supplicant:

   wpa_passphrase <ssid> <your_secret> >> /etc/wpa.conf

   See the sample configuration file wpa_supplicant.conf in the
   sources for a complete description of the available options 
   for wpa_supplicant. 

2. Change your wlan start script to use wpa_supplicant.

   Following an example for the centrino ipw2100 driver, no need 
   to do anything with iwconfig:

   /sbin/modprobe ipw2100
   /sbin/ifconfig eth1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx
   /sbin/route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
   /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -Dnl80211 -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa.conf

   Note: the above configuration makes use of the generic nl80211
         wpa_supplicant driver, which is the preferred nowadays 
         and supersedes the wext (wireless extensions) driver.

PRECAUTION

As off version 0.6.8 the -w option of wpa_supplicant was removed.
See the ChangeLog for more infos. This may cause troubles because
using the -w option was the recommend way to start wpa_supplicant
until version 0.6.