Starting the wpa_supplicant Daemon from rc.conf

[Teske, Devin]

On Dec 10, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:

> We are using 802.1x on our wired network and the wpa_supplicant
> on this system works like it should to authenticate with the
> network if manually called as in 
> 
> sudo ./etc/testwpa which is the name I gave the script that
> calls wpa_supplicant and gives it the configuration file and
> interface information to authenticate.
> 
> 	The only thing that is not yet working is getting
> wpa_supplicant to authenticate automatically upon reboot or
> startup. I presently have the following in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> #wpa_supplicant
> wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
> wpa_supplicant_program="/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant"	
> #executable
> wpa_supplicant_flags="-B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -i le0"
> 

What you actually want is:

ifconfig_le0="<normal stuff> WPA"
# Don't worry, the WPA will be stripped out when talking to ifconfig(8)
# NB: WPA can appear anywhere in the ifconfig_* value

-- 
Devin

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