BSD Ports

security/wpa_supplicant 2.10_10 DragonFly

Supplicant (client) for WPA/802.1x protocols

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
net, security
Package size
572.6 KiB, 1724.9 KiB installed

Description

wpa_supplicant is a client (supplicant) with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). It is suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/ association of the wlan driver.

wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are included with wpa_supplicant.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlysecurity/wpa_supplicant2.10_10
FreeBSDsecurity/wpa_supplicant2.12_1
OpenBSDsecurity/wpa_supplicant2.9p7
NetBSDnet/wpa_supplicant2.6nb3
MidnightBSDsecurity/wpa_supplicant2.11_1
HardenedBSDsecurity/wpa_supplicant2.12_1
GhostBSDsecurity/wpa_supplicant2.12_1
OPNsensesecurity/wpa_supplicant2.11_7

Install

Binary package:

pkg install wpa_supplicant

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/security/wpa_supplicant && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3
Required by 1

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

To use the ports version of WPA Supplicant instead of the base, add:

    wpa_supplicant_program="/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant"

to /etc/rc.conf