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wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows 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 a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows 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.

More information can be found at http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/.

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Setting up wpa_supplicant as 5GHz accesspoint fails on all channels

I am attempting to run wpa_supplicant as a 5GHz access point on a NUC installed with ubuntu 20.04 LTS. - But every single channel I try to use, it always fails with wlp2s0: Failed to start AP functionality. My wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ …
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Not able to initiate WiFi direct connection to android device from Raspberry Pi

I am trying to connect Android phone and Raspberry Pi board on WiFi direct using wpa_cli. I have followed https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/117238/connect-android-smartphone-with-wi-fi-direct-to-a-raspberry-pi for setting up the P2P…
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Limit on number of wireless "sta" stations in openwrt

I have openwrt implementation on a TPLink WR902AC (pocket router) I have a /etc/network/wireless configuration file with 10 sta configurations for connecting to AP all of which are active (option disabled '0') This is to ensure that openwrt connects…
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systemd, python-service can't copy to /etc/

I have a python service that is running via systemd on a raspberry-pi. I want to use subprocess.call to copy a file from ~ to /etc/wpa_supplicant/ When I start the python process from the comandline I have no problem executing the subprocess.call,…
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static ip with wpa2-enterprise and wpa_supplicant

I am trying to connect to an office network using wpa2-enterprise and set a static IP in it. At the first time I connected with dhcp, got an IP, disconnected and added the following info: wpa_supplicant.conf file: network={ ssid="myssid" …
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wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice

I'm trying to set up station mode on my device. It works fine if i give the wpa_supplicant command on command line after boot up. But disconnects when i give those commands in a script and then make a systemd service. And after it disconnects, wlan0…
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WiFi direct failure to connect Raspberry Pi to Android

I'm attempting to connect an Android Phone to a Raspberry Pi over WiFi Direct however when the Pi is the group owner (GO) it always fails to form a group. If I create a group on the Android device first and then have the Pi join it connects as…
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Enabling 802.11w mode with hostapd

I'm trying to setup a WiFi Access Point with a Raspberry Pi 3B+ having 802.11w enabled. Kernel version: Linux efb-ap-0 4.19.66-Re4son-v7+ #1 SMP Sun Aug 18 22:25:39 AEST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux Driver: brcmfmac hostapd (Deb package): 2:2.9-1…
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Edit wpa_supplicant.conf with python and raspbian

Willing to add wifi connections from a kivy app and I'm using a simple function to edit wpa_supplicant.conf file adding there new networks. My function correctly writes the configuration there and seems identical to the configs aded through raspbian…
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Updating wifi credentials to wpa_supplicant.conf in Rasberry Pi using Node.js

I am trying to provide wifi details to raspberry pi though Bluetooth. We are adding the wifi credentials to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file. Once I get the credentials I am using nodejs to update the wifi credentials using fs.write(). I…
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Android Nougat wpa_supplicant.conf id_str

I have upgraded my Nexus 5 to Nougat (7.1.2) and had to wipe it. I tried to restore my WLAN networks by copying the old wpa_supplicant.conf, which crashed the whole wlan module. By comparing the old to the fresh file I noticed that on the new one…
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Wifi P2P while maintaining a Wifi connection on rasperry pi 3 Raspbian using wpa_supplicant

I am pretty naive to this topic, so please excuse any dumb reply from my side. I want to connect my raspberry pi 3 to my android phone through Wifi Direct(or P2P), while maintaining its normal wifi connection. Whenever i run wpa_cli command, it…
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Stop auto connect on ifconfig wlan0 up

I'm currently programming two scripts, one to connect to a wifi network, the other one to disconnect. The connect script works well, however when I'm do sudo ifconfig wlan0 down sudo ifconfig wlan0 up The interface automatically reconnect to the…
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overwrite conf file android wpa_supplicant

Using a rooted phone I am trying to overwrite the wpa_supplicant file. I want to remove all the entries in here without going via the GUI (I underdtsand this was impossible in earlier versions of android). I can access the file…
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wpa_supplicant C API undefined behavior

I managed to get the wpa_supplicant C API to work. But it behaves completly different each time I restart my Program. The Connection succeeds every time. But then the troubles begin: Sometimes SCAN replies an empty String but returns 0 (Ok). In…
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