I was using good old Debian Linux 3.1 Sarge when I found out Sarge's wpasupplicant couldn't work well with ndiswrapper-supported Windows network drivers. So I set out to compile wpa_supplicant on my own. First, I installed the following development packages.
- gcc-3.4
- libssl0.9.7
- make
Then, I downloaded the wpa_supplicant source (wpa_supplicant-0.6.9.tar.gz) from http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant. I unpacked the source and read the README files.
tar xzvf wpa_supplicant-0.6.9.tar.gz cd wpa_supplicant-0.6.9/wpa_supplicant
I went into the wpa_supplicant subfolder and created .config to customize my build. The following is the contents of my .config:
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y CONFIG_DRIVER_HOSTAP=y CONFIG_DRIVER_ATMEL=y CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y CONFIG_DRIVER_RALINK=y CONFIG_DRIVER_NDISWRAPPER=y CONFIG_DRIVER_IPW=y CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y CONFIG_EAP_SIM=y CONFIG_EAP_AKA=y CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y CONFIG_EAP_SAKE=y CONFIG_EAP_GPSK=y CONFIG_EAP_PAX=y CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y CONFIG_EAP_IKEV2=y CONFIG_EAP=y CONFIG_WPS=y
Then, I began compilation by running make.
make
The compilation was successful. I installed wpa_supplicant with the following command.
make install
The following files are copied to the system.
/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant /usr/local/sbin/wpa_passphrase /usr/local/sbin/wpa_cli
