- NetBSD-current
- Microsoft Windows with WinPcap (at least WinXP, may work with other versions)
- drivers:
- Linux drivers that support WPA/WPA2 configuration with the generic
- Linux wireless extensions (WE-18 or newer). Even though there are
+ Linux drivers that support cfg80211/nl80211. Even though there are
number of driver specific interface included in wpa_supplicant, please
- note that Linux drivers are moving to use generic wireless extensions
- and driver_wext (-Dwext on wpa_supplicant command line) should be the
- default option to start with before falling back to driver specific
- interface.
+ note that Linux drivers are moving to use generic wireless configuration
+ interface driver_nl80211 (-Dnl80211 on wpa_supplicant command line)
+ should be the default option to start with before falling back to driver
+ specific interface.
+
+ Linux drivers that support WPA/WPA2 configuration with the generic
+ Linux wireless extensions (WE-18 or newer). Obsoleted by nl80211.
In theory, any driver that supports Linux wireless extensions can be
used with IEEE 802.1X (i.e., not WPA) when using ap_scan=0 option in
-N = start describing new interface
drivers:
+ nl80211 = Linux nl80211/cfg80211
wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
wired = wpa_supplicant wired Ethernet driver
roboswitch = wpa_supplicant Broadcom switch driver
interface needs to be configured to wpa_supplicant in addition to the
main interface:
-wpa_supplicant -cw.conf -Dwext -iwlan0 -bbr0
+wpa_supplicant -cw.conf -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -bbr0
Configuration file
# Start wpa_supplicant in the background
wpa_supplicant -g/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global -B
-# Add a new interface (wlan0, no configuration file, driver=wext, and
+# Add a new interface (wlan0, no configuration file, driver=nl80211, and
# enable control interface)
wpa_cli -g/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global interface_add wlan0 \
- "" wext /var/run/wpa_supplicant
+ "" nl80211 /var/run/wpa_supplicant
# Configure a network using the newly added network interface:
wpa_cli -iwlan0 add_network
chmod 0750 /var/run/wpa_priv
- start wpa_priv as root (e.g., from system startup scripts) with the
enabled interfaces configured on the command line:
- wpa_priv -B -P /var/run/wpa_priv.pid wext:ath0
+ wpa_priv -B -P /var/run/wpa_priv.pid nl80211:wlan0
- run wpa_supplicant as non-root with a user that is in wpapriv group:
wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c wpa_supplicant.conf