Getting WPA2-PSK

[Jordy Dickinson]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:04:55PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> >
> > On 19 Dec 2008, at 14:19, Jordy Dickinson wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, I've never used a mailing list before, so forgive me if I'm not
> doing
> >> this right.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to set up my network card, but I keep getting this error
> >> message.
> >> I type in this:
> >>
> >> ifconfig wi0 authmode wpa
> >>>
> >>
> >> And I get this:
> >>
> >> ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_xauth module by hand for now.
> >>> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
> >>>
> >>
> >> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> >>
> >
> > You're probably running a custom kernel without the wlan_xauth module
> built
> > in. Either load it as a module or compile it in your kernel.
> >
> > You may also want to use wpa_supplicant instead.
>
> More specifically, setting "authmode wpa" with ifconfig will always be
> wrong (unless perhaps someday someone adds a suplicant to the kernel).
> If you want WPA to work, you must run wpa_supplicant.
>
> -- Brooks


So how do I use wpa_supplicant? I've installed it on my machine already, and
the man pages are gibberish to me.

Also, is there a way to make the mailing list stop sending me emails that
I'm not part of?