Bugzilla Bug 52854

wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux with support for WPA and WPA2
(IEEE 802.11i / RSN)

It appears to be maintained by the HostAP people at http://hostap.epitest.fi/

I think this would make a nice addition to the portage tree

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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In order to use wpa_supplicant:

  a) hostap driver needs to be updated to a newer version (versions in portage are very old)

  b) madwifi driver in portage does not include wpa branch, there should be a madwifi-wpa ebuild in portage, or add "USE=wpa" to existing ebuild.

xsupplicant has reached version 1.0, we still have 0.8 in portage, and gentoo
still lacks wpa_supplicant... when will we have wpa support in gentoo??

I've tried to read and understand the Gentoo Ebuild how-to, but I get really
confused on exactly what is expected.  I could spend a bit of time and hack
together a new ebuild based on the old, but is that acceptable?

If not, I would appreciate a little more detail as to how to create ebuilds.
Sorry, but I find the howto to be a little too general (although I understand a
lot of different packages require a lot of different things)

Additionally, I think we need packages for the stable and dev branches.

Thanks for your help

I started working on the development stuff of hostap-{driver,d,utils} and
wpa_supplicant this weekend. I also got a 1.0 xsupplicant ebuild mostly
working. Hopefully i will have something testable this week. i will post the
ebuilds here.

I'm not yet sure if i feel comfortable having the development hostap stuff in
portage, but we'll see how the testing goes.

Best bet for writing ebuilds is reading existing ones. Sadly there's a *lot* of
different specific stuff that can come up in different realms. "man 5 ebuild"
is also a useful reference (but not great for just learning how to write an
ebuild).

Peter Johansson: 
Has you made any progress yet? If so, I would like te test the ebuilds..

Thanks,
Azoff

I have made one ebuild, but as this is my first ebuild ever, I need someone to
check it ;)
Please feel free to edit it in anyway you like, but tell me what you changed
and why so I can manage to do it right next time :)

Thanks.

Created an attachment (id=35744) [details]
wpa_supplicant-0.2.4.ebuild

Torbj

Torbjörn, thanks for the ebuild!
I will test it when I arrive at home and send you my feedback.

another question: any sucess with madwifi's wpa branch ebuild anyone?

I finally tried the ebuild for wpa_supplicant that Torbj

I finally tried the ebuild for wpa_supplicant that Torbjörn Svensson posted
here. I've had to modify it to build with madwifi support, see wpa_supplicant's
README file:

        Please note that you will need to use the WPA branch and modify
        the wpa_supplicant Makefile to use correct path for madwifi
        driver root directory (CFLAGS += -I../madwifi/wpa line in
        Makefile).

See bug 59739 for getting a madwifi-driver version with WPA support. The
current version in portage (20040726) still doesn't have it.

We still lack a hostap-driver (version 0.2.x which is now considered stable) in
portage with WPA support, see bug 57708.

Created an attachment (id=36988) [details]
wpa_supplicant ebuild with madwifi-driver support

This ebuild will only work if you use updated madwifi-driver from bug 59739

Okay folks, spent some time working on this tonight, including having forgotten
that bug 59739 existed. Anyway, there's an overlay up with my work located at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~latexer/files/overlays/

that includes ebuilds for all the new hostap* stuff, as well as madwifi-wpa and
wpa-supplicate ebuilds. Please give those all a shot, meanwhile i will try to
look at all the stuff here and incorporate any changes/fixes i may find.

Please report back any success/failures.

Peter-

Thanks for the ebuilds, AFAIK the hostap driver, utils, and wpa_supplicant all seem to work.  I can't fully test the WPA supplicant until WPA is working in the ipw2100 driver.  The only complication was having to add FEATURES="-sandbox" but I forget which ebuild needed it.

New ebuild for madwifi-driver added. This snapshot is taken from the WPA
branch. Could some people please test it with wpa_supplicant and confirm it is
working.
emerge '=net-wireless/sys-madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824'

net-wireless/wpa-supplicant is now in portage. Closing this bug as FIXED.

Did you test it with Madwifi?

I have included CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI and it builds using
madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040906.tar.bz2 - but I did not test it since I don't
have the hardware.

I also didn't test wpa_supplicant with the Atmel, ndiswrapper or prism54 driver
since I lack the hardware.

The main point is that the wpa-supplicant ebuild compiles fine with those
driver options enabled and works with the hostap-driver. The ebuild is keyword
masked and I expect people to report bugs if they encounter any bugs.

Horton, did you get a chance to test it with the madwifi driver yet? Can this
bug be closed?

I lack wpa to check it with.
I suspect I am just gunna have to breakdown and setup wpa since we have such a long line of people waiting to test wpa with madwifi.

Created an attachment (id=40570) [details]
wpa-supplicant-0.2.4-r1.ebuild

I successfully used this ebuild for WPA with a madwifi built from CVS HEAD (now
WPA branch has been merged).

I'm attaching /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant, /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant and an
updated ebuild which installs these and has an RDEPEND on wireless-tools.

Created an attachment (id=40571) [details]
files/wpa_supplicant.conf.d

Created an attachment (id=40572) [details]
files/wpa_supplicant.init.d

Please attach your changes to the ebuild as a patch.

Created an attachment (id=40589) [details]
patch to wpa-supplicant-0.2.4.ebuild

net-wireless/wpa-supplicant-0.2.5 is now in portage - including init script
(not the ones from this bug, though). Closing as FIXED.