Can I say first off that I'm trying to make wpa_supplicant work with
DesktopBSD so apologies if some of you feel I shouldn't be asking for
help here.
I have an old IBM Thinkpad and having tried various brands of Linux,
DesktopBSD was the only OS that installed correcly. I then wanted to
make it to talk to my other machines which meant networking. It
doesn't have a LAN port so I bought what I thought was a good wireless
card. I was wrong. It's a Netgear WG511v2 and I've had to install it
using ndisgen. I can get the thing to recognise my wireless LAN and if
I run ifconfig, it reports :-
ndis0: flags=8842<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1b:2f:d0:69:59
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid ss2_scanning channel 11 bssid 00:0f:3d:34:d6:f6
authmode WPA privacy OFF txpowmax 100 bmiss 7
My /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file looks like this
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl+interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="ss2_scanning"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="c:(vo.............$-"
}
So the question is, does the psk data have to be in quotes and in hex?
If so, how do I translate my ascii line into hex?
I've read lots and lots of stuff online about all this and to be
honest, I'm thoroughly confused.
I'd appreciate any help.
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