Starting the wpa_supplicant Daemon from rc.conf

[Teske, Devin]

On Dec 11, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

> "Teske, Devin" wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>>> We are using 802.1x on our wired network and the wpa_supplicant
>>> on this system works like it should to authenticate with the
>>> network if manually called as in 
>>> 
>>> sudo ./etc/testwpa which is the name I gave the script that
>>> calls wpa_supplicant and gives it the configuration file and
>>> interface information to authenticate.
>>> 
>>> 	The only thing that is not yet working is getting
>>> wpa_supplicant to authenticate automatically upon reboot or
>>> startup. I presently have the following in /etc/rc.conf:
>>> 
>>> #wpa_supplicant
>>> wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
>>> wpa_supplicant_program="/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant"	
>>> #executable
>>> wpa_supplicant_flags="-B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -i le0"
>>> 
>> 
>> What you actually want is:
>> 
>> ifconfig_le0="<normal stuff> WPA"
>> # Don't worry, the WPA will be stripped out when talking to ifconfig(8)
>> # NB: WPA can appear anywhere in the ifconfig_* value
> 
> Martin,
> I notice my rc.conf also has
> 	ifconfig_wlan0="WPA"
> Sorry I didnt mention it earlier, I didn't notice it, & my WLAN config is 
> a mess, a work in progress, (pending a new test net).
> 
> I also noticed that le0 looks wrong for a 2nd reason:
> man le says your le is an ethernet device, 
> my rc.conf has these snippets
>        wlans_urtwn0="wlan0"
>        wlans_run0="wlan0"
> # man urtwn & man run : ... wireless nets
> 	ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"
> 	ifconfig_wlan0="WPA"
> 	wlandebug_wlan0="scan+auth+assoc"       # /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> Though may be misleading, as said, work in progress.
> 

Keep in mind though...

Martin is doing 802.1X over a wired connection. Your configuration appears
to be for 802.11 for wireless.

In /etc/network.subr, you can see the code that determines that
le0 is a wired connection and treats it differently. I do believe that adding the
"WPA" keyword to the ifconfig_le0 line is correct for an 802.1X wired connection.
-- 
Devin

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