Friday 4 January 2008

Fedora WPA wpa_supplicant

Operating system ; Fedora Linux 6
Wireless Card ; Dlink D520 atheros based wireless pci card

For enabling wpa install wpa_supplicant*.rpm

edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf


ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
#
# home network; allow all valid ciphers
network={
ssid="yourssid"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="yourpassword"
}

And add line to /etc/rc.local for starting at boot time run the commands for starting wpa
wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iath0 -Dmadwifi &
dhclient ath0

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