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Install: Fedora Ubuntu/Debian

This document provides installation and configuration instructions for using WPA supplicant on different Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian. It summarizes the commands needed to install WPA supplicant and its GUI frontend. It also describes how to configure the network and WPA supplicant configuration files and how to start WPA supplicant and the GUI. The document further provides commands to enable the wireless interface for a survey and to start the network monitoring tool Kismet.

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Install: Fedora Ubuntu/Debian

This document provides installation and configuration instructions for using WPA supplicant on different Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian. It summarizes the commands needed to install WPA supplicant and its GUI frontend. It also describes how to configure the network and WPA supplicant configuration files and how to start WPA supplicant and the GUI. The document further provides commands to enable the wireless interface for a survey and to start the network monitoring tool Kismet.

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Install

Install Instructions
Fedora Ubuntu/Debian
yum install
wpa_supplicant-gui apt-get install wpa_gui

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Usage
Driver
Task Ipw2200 (Intel) MadWiFi (Atheros) General/Desc
Interface Name eth1 ath0
Network Configuration /etc/sysconfig/network- /etc/sysconfig/network-
File scripts/ifcfg-eth1 scripts/ifcfg-ath0

Not driver specific. Edit the


file
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_suppli
cant.conf to add network
block(s) for any know wireless
WPA Supplicant networks. Each block should
Configuration File n/a n/a have a unique SSID value.

If the control interface directory,


/var/run/wpa_supplicant, does
not exist, then as the root user
Make sure the WPA execute “mkdir
Supplicant control /var/run/wpa_supplicant” and
interface directory then execute “chmod 700
exists n/a n/a /var/run/wpa_supplicant”

wpa_supplicant must be started


before starting wpa_client. Its
wpa_supplicant -d -c wpa_supplicant -d -c ok to use the default
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa /etc/wpa_supplicant/wp wpa_supplicant config file, as
Starting WPA _supplicant.conf -ieth1 a_supplicant.conf -iath0 wpa_gui will override it (not
Supplicant -Dext -Dmadwifi sure how it does so)
Starting WPA GUI wpa_gui wpa_gui
Stop the wireless
interface
Restart the wireless
interface

Notes:
installed.
There has been a problem using WPA_Supplicant and DHCP
Trouble connecting to WPA Networks if the “Scan” window is open.

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Usage

TODO Add
network
block
examples...

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Start Survey
Commands to Enable the Wireless Interface for a Survey

Zenwalk/Slackware
sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 ath0_stop
sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo wlanconfig ath0 destroy
sudo /sbin/dhcpcd -k
sudo sed -i /USE_DHCP\[1\]/s/no/yes/g /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
sudo sed -i /IPADDR\[1\]/s/.*/IPADDR\[1\]=""/g /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
sudo sed -i /WLAN_ESSID\[1\]/s/.*/WLAN_ESSID\[1\]=/g /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
sudo sed -i /^[^_^b]*ssid/s/.*/ssid=""/g config/none.conf
sudo sed -i /bssid/s/.*/bssid=00:13:10:44:98:B0/g config/none.conf
sudo sed -i \,WLAN_WPA\[1\],s,.*,WLAN_WPA\[1\]="",g /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
sudo sed -i /WLAN_AP\[1\]/s/.*/WLAN_AP\[1\]=00:13:10:44:98:B0/g /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
sudo sed -i \,WLAN_WPACONF\[1\],s,.*,WLAN_WPACONF\[1\]="/data/dev/CherryBlossom/Sundew/dist/co
sudo sed -i /STATUS\[1\]/s/down/up/g /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
sudo wlanconfig ath0 destroy
sudo wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta nosbeacon -bssid
sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 ath0_stop
sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 ath0_start
sudo iwconfig ath0
sudo ifconfig ath0
sudo nmap -e ath0 -n -T5 -sP -PR 192.1.16.1-254

Fedora
TBD

NOTE: changes were made to Zenwalk's wirless script (?) to help with connection problems

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Start Survey

config/none.conf",g /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

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Start Kismet
Zenwalk/Slackware Fedora
sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 ath0_stop
sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo wlanconfig ath0 destroy
sudo /sbin/dhcpcd -k
sudo kismet_server -sq

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