NOTE: this page is for archival only, see the note at the end of the page.

wpa_supplicant Linux documentation page

wpa_supplicant is a userspace application which works as a WPA supplicant and SME (to handle initiating MLME commands). This page is dedicated only to the documentation relating to the Linux aspects of wpa_supplicant. For further documentation please refer to the wpa_supplicant home page:

http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/

Supported Linux wireless cards/drivers

  • Linux drivers that support Linux Wireless Extensions v19 or newer with WPA/WPA2 extensions
  • All Linux mac80211 drivers
  • Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 (WPA and WPA2)
  • Linuxant DriverLoader with Windows NDIS driver supporting WPA/WPA2

  • Agere Systems Inc. Linux Driver (Hermes-I/Hermes-II chipset) (WPA, but not WPA2)
  • madwifi (Atheros ar521x)
  • ATMEL AT76C5XXx
  • Linux ndiswrapper
  • Broadcom wl.o driver
  • Wired Ethernet drivers

Download

Please refer to the wpa_supplicant home page for release information

http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/

Git

You can clone this tree:

git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap.git

If you have to use http you can also use:

http://w1.fi/hostap.git

For your convenience we have here a few shortcuts:

Developer's documentation

Mailing lists

Bugs / feature requests

If you want to make sure your bug report of feature request does not get lost, please report it through the bug tracking system as a new bug/feature request.

http://w1.fi/bugz/enter_bug.cgi


This is a static dump of the wiki, taken after locking it in January 2015. The new wiki is at https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/.
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