wpa_supplicant issues

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Sat Mar 31 16:31:13 UTC 2007


[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> Cezary Morga wrote:
>> On Saturday 31 March 2007 13:26, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>>>> In my case the "-D" parameter did the trick:
>>>> wpa_supplicant -B -q -i ndis0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D ndis
>>> I cannot find any documentation on the -D parameter. Is there a place
>>> where I can see available options? Or is it only ndis and bsd?
>> AFAIR "-D" stands for driver, so probably it should also accept other 
>> drivers for wireless network cards.
> 
> So the question is where do I get a list of drivers from?

There are only 2 drivers.  The -D option was left out of the original
man page because it didn't exist.  At the time wpa_supplicant was
brought into the system all drivers capable of supporting WPA used a
standard api (in FreeBSD all wireless drivers are unified under a common
net80211 layer that exports an API that applications are written to).
-Dndis was added because the ndis emulation code in the system exports a
different api, requiring a different glue layer/driver in wpa_supplicant.

I will fix the wpa_supplicant man page.

	Sam


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