BSD Ports

security/wpa_supplicant210 2.10_12 GhostBSD

Supplicant (client) for WPA/802.1x protocols

System
GhostBSD
Repository
GhostBSD
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
net, security
Package size
623.4 KiB, 1765.1 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.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install wpa_supplicant210

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.

Related ports

The same software or family in GhostBSD: one homepage, or one name but for a version or a variant.

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

===>   NOTICE:

This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it:

Unsupported by upstream.

It is scheduled to be removed on or after 2026-09-30.