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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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Linux P2P (wifi-direct) configuration is not visible only in Android 13

We have a Linux device that configures a p2p network (wifi-direct). Everything works fine on Android versions lower than 13 but when scanning wifi-direct devices on an Android 13, it does not appear. Anyone is experiencing this issue? I found the…
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wpa_supplicant - run without sudo

I'm developing an embedded linux application & it uses egt as the GUI front-end. The GUI uses wpa_supplicant to connect/ register WiFi network. I've got the same GUI application running on my desktop for development purposes. Accessing…
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wired 802.1x with wpa_supplicant fails to authenticate

I am trying to set up wired 802.1x using 2 ubuntu docker containers. First tested running freeradius on both client and server and when running radtest from client it can connect to server. So next step was trying to use wpa_supplicant on the…
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How to make it secure the network credential in the wpa_supplicant.conf

Except pre-shared keys we have an option to make it secure our network credential(password). I'm using wpa_supplicant(version-2.7) to interact with AP, once the connection established the network credential will be stored in the wpa_supplicant.conf…
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Yocto - building application using wpa-supplicant library (libwpa_client)

I've got a C++ application in a Yocto build that requires the library file libwpa_client.so. This file is provided by wpa-supplicant. I brute forced installation of this file into my Yocto image as the wpa-supplicant recipe wasn't doing it for me.…
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Yocto & wpa_supplicant - installing libwpa_client.so

I'm working with this Yocto/ Bitbake recipe for wpa_supplicant (v2.9) which is a bbappend for this recipe. I had significant difficulties getting the associated library (libwpa_client.so) included in the install process during my Yocto/ Poky build.…
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Device connects to HotSpot with ASCII SSID, but not when given name with foreign UTF-8 letters

and thanks to this wonderful forum! I'm developing a device that runs Linux embedded using wpa-supplicant. I must be able to connect to any Wifi network with any SSID - including symbols and foreign characters. I've been learning about UTF-8…
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Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant but does’t work

I'm going mad with a stupid issue I can't solve. During the testing of my Yocto project I always used connmactl in order to connect my board to the internet. Now I am going to release the product but before releasing I am working on an “internet…
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Does wpa_supplicant allow using all characters and symbols in SSID?

I've been researching the internet to understand what characters/symbols are allowed in a 32-byte/octet SSID. From the standard (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9363693) I understand that there is no restriction on types of characters, any…
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linux - wpa_supplicant forcing wlan0 to used given bssid not working

i want to force my wlan to connect to network ID 0 with bssid, but it automaticly moves to network 1 even if it is disabled in wpa_supplicant. What am i missing here? cat…
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WPA3 networks not getting saved in wpa_supplicant.conf file using wpa_cli

I am using WPA_Supplicant version 2.9 Following commands are used to connect with WPA3 networks using wpa_cli. add_network set_network 1 ssid "abc" set_network 1 key_mgmt SAE set_network 1 sae_password "password" set_network 1 ieee80211w…
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How is the WiFi Security Protocol (WPA, WPA2, etc) Determined from Network Beacons?

I know APs and surrounding networks send out Beacon Frames periodically which contain information about themselves. This can include Capability Information, RSN etc... What information from the Beacon is used to determine the method of encryption…
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wpa_supplicant wont connect to WPA enterprise EAP-PEAP MSCHAPv2

I am trying to authenticate with a Wpa_enterprise network via Wpa_supplicant using PEAP-MSCHAPv2 , the back-end radius server is running what I believe to be free-radius 3.0. I have tried numerous configuration files, the credentials are correct. I…
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connection using Macsec via wpa_supplicant failed

I am a novice in macsec, and appreciate any help in understanding why macsec via wpa_supplicant on Ubuntu does not work with the Ruckus ICX7850-48FS switch. This switch does have macsec option enabled and configured with pre-shared CAK and…
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IWD ap not starting: START_AP failed: -95

Interface is set to AP mode. When turning on ap it is giving "Operation not supported". [iwd]# ap wlan0 start "start_wpa2" password Operation not supported Output of iwd -d: src/netdev.c:netdev_link_notify() event 16 on ifindex…
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