Questions tagged [wpa-supplicant]
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Can't connect to free wifi network with iwconfig in Linux embedded
at first sorry for my English, it's very bad. I hope you will understand my problem.
I'm working on Yocto dizzy and I'm trying to manage Wi-Fi connections. On my board I have a wf111 module. When I ...
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wpa_supplicant removing all listed networks
I'm using wpa_supplicant with connmand over Centos 7. When I start wpa_supplicant either as system service or manually, and with debug enabled, wpa_supplicant list all BSSID near my computer. Then, ...
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Create wpa_supplicant.conf from a Mac's preferred network list
Can I generate or export a wpa_supplicant.conf file from the preferred network list on my Mac?
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WPA Supplicant reconnect after signal drop?
I have a headless server (Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS) which I configured to connect to my WPA-protected wifi network at boot using the accepted answer in the link below (tl;dr: run wpa_supplicant from /...
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What is the fastest way to switch from one AP to another in Linux
I need to switch between APs quickly - in less than 1 second if possible.
Using nmcli or wpa_supplicant the best I can do is about 12 seconds. Does anyone know a method to reduce the time?
Thanks.
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How do I hide a ad-hoc wifi netwok on linux?
I'm creating a mesh network with batman-adv and using wpa_supplicant for the ad-hoc network. I do not want this ad-hoc network to be visible to others (on their list of available networks and such).
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BAMT Edimax wireless adapter join wpa2 network
I have managed to get my Edimax EW-7811Un wireless adapter registered and the correct driver installed, but need some help getting it connected to my WPA2 PSK network.
BAMT is based on debian and I'...
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Connecting to a WPA network in Linux with a USB dongle
I'm trying to connect my computer to a wireless network in Linux Mint. I used the Windows Wireless Driver program to load the Windows XP drivers for my USB dongle, a Cisco / Linksys AE1200. After that ...
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Wpa supplicant suddenly stopped working
Recently my wireless stopped working on my Debian testing system. It just doesn't connect. The best I get (only after a reboot) is that it says it did connect, but failed to get IP address. But ...
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wpa_supplicant wlan debug RaLink RT2760
I'm attempting to use a RaLink RT2760 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R Cardbus. This card auto-configures beautifully under Ubuntu 11.04, but I have a need for 10.04 LTS server, so I'm re-imaging.
I configure ...
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How to configure wpa_supplicant.conf for NetworkManager WiFi proper management?
I have NetworkManager installed on Wrap7 board(which runs embedded Linux distro), but NetworkManager does not detect WiFi interface with a default content of wpa_supplicant.conf. Here is ...
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Firefox has permission to start wpa_supplicant when calling navigator.geolocation
I've been dealing with some annoying attacks lately, and got super paranoid after discovering wpa_supplicant.service running as it definitely should not be on this particular machine. After a little ...
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Configuring WPA supplicant to use tpm2 pkcs11 tools
I would like to configure WPA supplicant to authenticate with TPM 2.0 managed certificate in order to connect to company network.
I created RSA keypair managed by my TPM, generated CSR and recieved ...
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Error: "failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open no such file or directory" using netcfg with wpa_supplicant
I'm trying to set up netcfg so that I can finish installing Arch Linux (using the instructions from the Beginners' Guide and netcfg) and I passed over what was meant to be a short step. Open wifi-menu,...
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Addressing a host from both internal and external networks
I have a fairly standard home network set-up with a router and a couple machines on the internal network (with private IP addresses 10.0.0.x). One of these machines is running my subversion server, ...
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In Network Manager how is my current Bitrate greater than the access point MaxBitrate
I'm working with the D-Bus interface to Network Manager on a custom Linux and I'm trying to find a decent estimate for current connection speed.
If I query the MaxBitrate property of the current ...
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Limit and view WPA usage on Windows
on my windows operating system, I want to see if my connection uses WPA1 or WPA2.. Or if it uses TKIP or CCMP or GCMP with AES. How can I get the full information of current connection ?
Also, for ...
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WLAN: how to configure entropy file in wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_passphrase creates network login information for wpa_supplicant.conf.
wpa_supplicant takes an option -e to store entropy across restarts.
I understand internally stored entropy as a way to make ...
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How can I trigger re-generation of /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
There are standard systemd network config files for wpa_supplicant, namely /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]. These are generated automatically at some point, presumably by ...
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wpa_supplicant - no control interface generated under /run/wpa_supplicant
I have an Arch Linux install, with wpa_supplicant. Im trying to access through wpa_cli but get a connection error. I suspect that the problem is that the wpa_supplicant is not generating a control ...
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802.1X please translate the NetworkManager conf to wpa_supplicant conf
OS: (Arch Linux) Linux HP-Arch 4.17.4-1-ARCH
NetworkManager is able to connect to my AP, "SYSU-SECURE", which requires 802.1X authentication. However, I would like to run wpa_supplicant directly with ...
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wi-fi p2p peers discovery downgrades wlan bandwidth
When I initiate wi-fi peers discovery by p2p_find command in wpa_cli (wlan is the only interface) network bandwidth sugnifically slows.
Tried it on Android Lollipop and Kali Linux, both are affected.
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Connect to eduroam over wire: nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands
I have a problem with connecting to eduroam network on wired connection. I thought that eduroam only works as wireless network, but apparently my institution also uses eduroam 802.1x authentication on ...
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In Ubuntu 14.04, how to disable wpa_supplicant looking for peer to peer (p2p) networks?
CVE-2015-1863 - people can maybe break into your computer from anywhere in radio range, by sending specially crafted P2P network management packets.
The disclosure says you can mitigate the ...
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How do I limit configure WPA supplicant to scan for 11g channels only?
In order to reduce the scanning time, I'd like to limit the scanning to 11g only
My current list of channels
# ifconfig wlan0 list regdomain
:regdomain 0 country US anywhere -ecm
Channel 1 : 2412 ...
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wpa_supplicant passphrase, can it be normal password?
I have a basic question which has been bugging me for quite some time.
I will update my router to WPA2 soon (about time) but I also want to learn to use wpa_supplicant in case I need it. I found out ...
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Wifi Dongle on Armbian, nl80211 driver doesnt work
I have problems to get a wifi-USB-dongle working on a linux (Armbian 22.05.0-trunk with bleeding edge Linux 5.16.20-rockchip64).
the file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf looks like:
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How can I configure my WiFi interface depending on the selected network?
I am running an (Arch) linux system with a WiFi card. Depending on the wireless network I am connected to (aka the SSID connected by wpa_supplicant), I eventually want to add configurations.
For ...
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Jetson Xavier NX + Intel AX210NGW WIFI 6E 6Ghz
my setup:
Jetson Xavier NX, Jetpack 5.1.1, ubuntu 20.04, linux kernel 5.10
Intel AX210NGW WIFI 6E 6Ghz
Router netgear RAXE300 tri-band
situation:
I was able to connect to wifi 6ghz from my laptop ...
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Run Wifi (Intel AX210) with Single Antenna
Is it possible to run an Intel AX210 chip using a single antenna? I've got an embedded project where a single antenna would be optimal. With a single antenna, I get almost perfect data connectivity, ...
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wpa_supplicant not connecting at boot but manually
I generated an embedded Linux system with Yocto Kirkstone, which has all the required modules for WiFi over an RTL8192 dongle.
When I start the device, wpa_supplicant fails connecting the network with ...
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wpa roaming configuration does not work
I am trying to configure wpa_supplicant.conf in roaming mode.I use Devuan with Sysv (=Debian without systemD).
my wpa configuration works fine:
pkill wpa;wpa -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/...
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getting error while configuring wpa_spplicant in WPA3 SAE mode
I configured as below in wpa_supplicant2.conf:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
sae_pwe=2
sae_groups=19 20 21 24 25
update_config=1
network={
ssid=req_SSID
proto=...
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Multiple wpa_supplicants/dhclients for multiple vlan network
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How to get multiple wpa_supplicants and dhclient on different nics in different vlan running on debian_bulls/proxmox7?
Ive been browsing and wasn't able to find a proper answer. I have this ...
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802.1x renewals under linux with a bridge device
I have a Fedora 33 linux machine running in an 802.1X environment. NetworkManager is configured to have an ethernet device doing the 802.1X part and a bridge device configured to do DHCP. (I'm using ...
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Connection to an external wifi network is established but pings aren't going through - using ipv6
So I am using a WiFi chip on an embedded board, and I set it up as a supplicant to connect to an external network and i'm able to to do it fine, but it just pings don't go through and i'm not sure if ...
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Block BSSID with wpa_supplicant in IBSS mode
is it possible to select / whitelist / blacklist a BSSID in IBSS (AdHoc) mode?
The connection must be established using wpa_supplicant because encryption is needed.
I've tried by specifying bssid, ...
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Arch Linux: Using wpa_supplicant to connect to wifi
I was in the middle of switching desktop environments, so networkmanager had just been uninstalled, everything was fine because its instance was still running in the background. But I was with a ...
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Can't connect to PEAP with wpa_supplicant on Arch
I've been searching around for how to connect to PEAP and there's lot's of info out there, but I can't seem to connect and my University tech support is no help(I'm not really surprised).
Basically I ...
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Rapsbery Pi stretch lite not connecting to WiFi Network
I am running the latest November release of Raspian Stretch Lite on my Pi.
I created a /etc/network/interfaces file with this information whenever I plug in my USB wifi dongle into the USB interface ...
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Debian can not connect to one specific wifi
I'm using following command to connect to any wifi network:
wpa_supplicant -c"/path/to/configfile" -Dwext -iwlp2s0
This command worked countless times and is also working right now. But I'm no ...
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What is wpa_supplicant p2p correct behavior?
I have two Android devices - say, A and B.
Also I use Kali Linux device KL with wpa_cli running.
Both A and B just booted, Wi-Fi on, no any apps that may affect experiment are installed.
When I run ...
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wpa_cli lost connection to wpa_supplicant after starting armon-ng
On Kali Linux I have wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli running on wlan0. When I run
$ airmon-ng start wlan0
wlan0mon interface being created in place of wlan0, and wpa_cli shows
Connection to ...
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Wicd+wpa_supplicant how to: NOT use certificates (PEAP+MSCHAP)? Enable logging?
I'm using Debian 8 (Jessie) with LDXE, Wicd, and wpa_supplicant, to try to connect to my work's WiFi network. The network uses PEAP and MSCHAP, but it does not use certificates.
When I leave the ...
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RT5572 can authenticate using WPA2, but can't get an IP address from DHCP
I have a system running open embedded Linux with the Ralink RT5572 wireless usb card. I have the driver installed along with wpa_supplicant and I need to be able to connect to a WPA2 secured network. ...
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static IP holds good even after changing network to dynamic
I'm using wpa_supplicant as a client to connect to an AP. When i'm trying to change the wireless connection from STATIC to DHCP(dhclient is invoked using the below command with leases file[dhclient-...
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Unable to connect with wpa_supplicant
I try to connect with wifi (WPA2) using wpa_supplicant
root@bamt-miner:~# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: AC:F1:DF:24:93:D6
Protocol:802....
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wpa_supplicant unexpectedly running on server
I discovered that wpa_supplicant is running on some of my CentOS 6.4 servers, without having been explicitly declared in the chkconfig setup. What can be causing this ?
$ chkconfig --list | grep ...
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Why I always Fail to "save_config" after finish setting wireless network use wpa_cli
I have created file in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
update_config=1
Why always give me FAIL after save_config?
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/...
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Can one “wpa_supplicant” support Ethernet LAN and WLAN?
The product I’m working on supports Ethernet only, and we are planning to support WLAN as well. I’m trying to figure out whether same wpa_supplicant can support both of Ethernet and WLAN or we have to ...
