WPA Supplicant

Tip

We welcome improvements to this page. To edit this page, Create a Funtoo account. Then log in and then click here to edit this page. See our editing guidelines to becoming a wiki-editing pro.

Configuration

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf - wpa_supplicant daemon config

# provide control interface for wpa_cli and wpa_gui frontends
ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant

# allow wpa_cli and wpa_gui to update config
update_config=1

network={
	ssid="SSID"
	psk="passphrace"
}

network={
	ssid="SSID2"
	key_mgmt=NONE
}

Daemon

Start daemon with openrc.

root #/etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start

You can also add it to default runlevel.

root #rc-update add wpa_supplicant default

The daemon can work independently or you can use wpa_cli and wpa_gui frontends. You can also alter configs with frontends.

wpa_cli

You can start cli frontend by running wpa_cli.

root # $ wpa_cli

Scan Access Points

root ##i##scan
OK
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
root ##i##scan_results
bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid
50:32:75:ee:b6:fb       2462    -41     [WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS]    AndroidAP
00:3a:98:99:12:f3       2412    -71     [WPA2-EAP-CCMP][ESS]    wEKSOTE
00:3a:98:99:12:f0       2412    -71     [WPA2-EAP-CCMP][ESS]    wULAPPA
00:23:33:a2:7d:14       2462    -85     [WPA2-EAP-CCMP][ESS]    SaitaBYOD
00:3a:98:99:12:f1       2412    -70     [ESS]   saitaOpen

wpa_gui

wpa_gui is simple gui frontend. You can start it by running wpa_gui.

Package:WPA Supplicant