hostapd wpa_psk_file doesn't work ...

[Arjan van Bentem]

 > 00:00:00:00:00:00 abcdefgh
 > 1 errors found in configuration file '/etc/hostapd.conf'

I've never used hostapd, but wpa_supplicant requires plain-text 
passphrases to be enclosed in quotes, whereas hexadecimal numeric values 
should not be quoted -- it seems that abcdefgh is a plain-text 
passphrase? If so, then maybe you should add double-quotes.

Good luck,
Arjan.


On 04/20/2005 04:48 PM, Vincent Tassy wrote:

>Hi all !
>
>I am using hostapd (today's CVS) with madwifi (today's CVS) in a WPA-PSK configuration with a windows XP client.
>
>It works fine if I declare my wpa_passphrase in hostapd.conf.
>
>I then removed the wpa_passphrase stanza from the conf file and added
>
>wpa_psk_file=/etc/hostapd.wpa_psk
>
>this file contains :
>
>00:00:00:00:00:00 abcdefgh
>
>And with this, when I try to start hostapd, I get the following error :
>
>Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
>WPA-PSK enabled, but PSK or passphrase is not configured.
>1 errors found in configuration file '/etc/hostapd.conf'
>
>Any clues ?
>
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