wpa_password not included in 6.1

probsd org

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Nov 15, 2006, 6:05:55 PM11/15/06

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I'm using FBSD 6.1 and have ndis0 configured. The wireless router I need to connect to is doing WPA-PSK TKIP encryption. I have installed wpa_supplicant but when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have to define 32-bit
psk password from wpa_password. But, I see wpa_password isn't included in FBSD 6.1

What are my options?

Michael

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Brooks Davis

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Nov 15, 2006, 6:11:48 PM11/15/06

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:05:55PM -0800, probsd org wrote:
> I'm using FBSD 6.1 and have ndis0 configured. The wireless router I need to connect to is doing WPA-PSK TKIP encryption. I have installed wpa_supplicant but when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have to define 32-bit
> psk password from wpa_password. But, I see wpa_password isn't included in FBSD 6.1
>
> What are my options?

wpa_supplicant was shipped with FreeBSD 6.0 and beyond.

-- Brooks

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Nov 15, 2006, 9:04:35 PM11/15/06

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-- Brooks

It is my understanding that wpa_password is apart of wpa_supplicant. One needs to run 'wpa_password ssid password' to generate the 32-bit password when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

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Sam Leffler

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Nov 15, 2006, 9:36:02 PM11/15/06

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probsd org wrote:
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> Brooks Davis <bro...@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:05:55PM -0800, probsd org wrote:
>> I'm using FBSD 6.1 and have ndis0 configured. The wireless router I need to connect to is doing WPA-PSK TKIP encryption. I have installed wpa_supplicant but when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have to define 32-bit
>> psk password from wpa_password. But, I see wpa_password isn't included in FBSD 6.1
>>
>> What are my options?
>
> wpa_supplicant was shipped with FreeBSD 6.0 and beyond.
>
> -- Brooks
>
> It is my understanding that wpa_password is apart of wpa_supplicant. One needs to run 'wpa_password ssid password' to generate the 32-bit password when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

[please don't cross-post to multiple groups]

If you put the ascii string in the wpa_supplicant.conf file then
wpa_supplicant will do the work of wpa_passphrase and you don't need it.
If you want wpa_passphrase for pre-caculating the PSK, then the code is
in contrib/wpa_supplicant and you can build it yourself. Another person
requested it be hooked to the build and it's on my TODO list but hasn't
happened yet.

Sam

PS. If you really meant wpa_psasword then I don't know what it is;
please provide a pointer.

probsd org

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Nov 15, 2006, 9:48:40 PM11/15/06

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Sam Leffler <s...@errno.com> wrote: probsd org wrote:
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> Brooks Davis

Sam

Sam,
Sorry, I did mean wpa_passphrase. When I put the ascii password for PSK and run wpa_supplicant -i ndis0 -c /ets/wpa_supplicant.conf I am getting a kernal trap error and a subsequent forced reboot.

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Henrik Brix Andersen

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Nov 16, 2006, 4:49:19 AM11/16/06

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:48:40PM -0800, probsd org wrote:
> Sorry, I did mean wpa_passphrase. When I put the ascii password for
> PSK and run wpa_supplicant -i ndis0 -c /ets/wpa_supplicant.conf I am
> getting a kernal trap error and a subsequent forced reboot.

Please see bin/104457 [1] for my patch which connects wpa_passphrase
to the build.

Regards,
Brix

[1]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=104457
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Henrik Brix Andersen <hen...@brixandersen.dk>