WPS in wpa supplicant 0.6.9

Andriy Tkachuk andriy.v.tkachuk
Mon Oct 26 05:07:21 PDT 2009


Hi Santosh,

make sure your wireless card driver (on laptop) returns WPS Information 
Element in scan results. I think, you can check it even with iwlist scan 
command.

Regards,
    Andriy

On 2009-10-26 13:13, santosh kumar upadhyaya wrote:
> Hello All,
> I am trying to use wps in wpa supplicant from linux ubuntus laptop.
> I am using wpa supplicant version 0.6.9.
> But I am not able to connect to the AP.
> I did the following things.
>
> 1> Compiled wpa_supplicant_0.6.0 with config_wps=y in .config file
> 2> In wpa_supplicant.conf file , I have wps_cred_processing=0 .
> There is no network block.
> 3> load the binary and run from command prompt by
> sudo cp wpa_cli wpa_supplicant /usr/local/bin
> and then
> sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c//home/lab-user/Desktop 
> /wps/wpa_supplicant-0.6.9/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
>
> 4> Then generated the pin by wpa_cli wps_pin 12345670
>
> 5> Then in the AP , enetered the number 12345670 and pressed Register 
> button.
>
> I am using linksys WRT54G2 V1 AP.
>
> I see that the laptop disassociates after getting the probe response 
> from the AP.
>
> I have tested the AP in wps mode by connecting the windows XP client 
> to the AP in WPS .It works fine.
>
> I am able to see the probe response from the AP , that contains the 
> wps vendor information in the wireless sniffer.
>
> But the wpa supplicant client is not able to receive this.
>
> In the function "wpas_wps_ssid_bss_match" I put debug prints and found 
> that WPS related info is not received.
>
> So, it says "skip - non-WPS AP".
>
> Can anybody please suggest me whats happening in this case .
> Any thing else I need to do to make this work.
>



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