Re: Is wpa_supplicant supposed to work with a hidden ssid?

Sam Leffler wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> Meanwhile, what do you think of the attached patch for the example
>> wpa_supplicant.conf file? It also seems to me that there are a lot of
>> options in that sample conf file that don't work for FreeBSD. For
>> example if I try to set device_name I get:
>>
>> Line 8: unknown global field 'device_name=foo'.
>> Line 8: Invalid configuration line 'device_name=foo'.
>> Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.
>>
>> Would it be worthwhile to also delete unusable options from the
>> example file, and if so, which are the ones that are not usable?
>>   
> 
> Many materials for wpa_supplicant and hostapd are included unchanged
> from Jouni's distribution.  It'd be good to make a pass over all of them
> as his development environment is very different than ours and many
> mechanisms described in the config files and (his) documentation do not
> apply to freebsd. 

Makes sense. Unfortunately I don't have the time (or the knowledge for
that matter) to do an exhaustive review of this. Hopefully someone
with more of both will see this thread and pick up the project.

> That said if you want to commit changes like the ones
> you attached feel free (no need to consult me unless you're looking for
> review).

Ok, done. Thanks.


Doug

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