BSD Portssecurity/wpa_supplicant29 2.9_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
- 570.1 KiB, 1613.8 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
| System | Port | Version |
|---|---|---|
| GhostBSD | security/wpa_supplicant29 | 2.9_12 |
| DragonFly | security/wpa_supplicant29 | 2.9_12 |
| MidnightBSD | security/wpa_supplicant29 | 2.9_13 |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install wpa_supplicant29Dependencies
Run dependencies 2
No port depends on this one.
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.