1 README for wpa_supplicant
6 Kernel driver for your wireless card, e.g. ndiswrapper or ipw2100.
7 See the wpa_supplicant homepage for supported drivers.
15 1. Create a network setup for wpa_supplicant:
17 wpa_passphrase <ssid> <your_secret> >> /etc/wpa.conf
19 See the sample configuration file wpa_supplicant.conf in the
20 sources for a complete description of the available options
23 2. Change your wlan start script to use wpa_supplicant.
25 Following an example for the centrino ipw2100 driver, no need
26 to do anything with iwconfig:
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 -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa.conf
33 Note: the above configuration makes use of the generic wext
34 wpa_supplicant driver (Linux wireless extensions),
35 which is the preferred nowadays. Use this driver for
41 As off version 0.6.8 the -w option of wpa_supplicant was removed.
42 See the ChangeLog for more infos. This may cause troubles because
43 using the -w option was the recommend way to start wpa_supplicant