Madwifi along with WPA-PSK

joseph_chen chenifang
Mon Jan 31 17:04:52 PST 2005


at first , than you for your response!
I just wonder whether I have to use wpa_supplicant to be the supplicant.
if the  supplicant is windows client, is it still OK about WPA-PSK? 


Joseph

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel Cunningham" <ncunningham at linuxmail.org>
To: "joseph_chen" <chenifang at giga.net.tw>
Cc: <hostap at shmoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: Madwifi along with WPA-PSK


> Hi.
> 
> Yes. You need to get the wpa_supplicant, but it is possible:
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig ath0 up
> /sbin/iwconfig ath0 channel 1
> /usr/bin/wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dmadwifi -iath0 -B
> 
> Does it for me (with the appropriate things in the conf). I had less
> success trying with channel != 1.
> 
> Netgear WG511T talking to DLink604T.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nigel
> 
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 20:54, joseph_chen wrote:
> > Hi ~ hotstapd guy
> >  
> > Has anyone successfully test Madwifi with hostapd to act an as
> > authenticator ? Is WPA-PSK workable ?
> >  
> >  
> > Joseph
> >  
> >  
> > 
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