docs/121821: [patch] wpa_supplicant.conf.5 - provide pointer to sample configuration file

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Tue Mar 18 09:10:01 UTC 2008


>Number:         121821
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] wpa_supplicant.conf.5 - provide pointer to sample configuration file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 18 09:10:01 UTC 2008
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Edwin Groothuis
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD k7.mavetju 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 17 22:11:52 EST 2008 edwin at k7.mavetju:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP i386

>Description:

It took me a while to figure out how to properly use a WEP (silly
Nintendo DS doesn't know about WPA so I needed to reconfigure my
network) configuration. Once I had read through the wpa_supplicant.conf
in /usr/src/contrib/wpa_supplicant it was clear at once.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Index: wpa_supplicant.conf.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.5,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 wpa_supplicant.conf.5
--- wpa_supplicant.conf.5	11 Jul 2007 16:04:08 -0000	1.9
+++ wpa_supplicant.conf.5	18 Mar 2008 08:59:02 -0000
@@ -518,6 +518,11 @@
         wep_key0=42FEEDDEAFBABEDEAFBEEFAA55
 }
 .Ed
+.Pp
+More examples can be found in the supplied 
+.Pa wpa_supplicant.conf
+in
+.Pa /usr/src/contrib/wpa_supplicant/ .
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr wpa_cli 8 ,
 .Xr wpa_passphrase 8 ,
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