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CoovaAAA with WPA_Supplicant

wpa_supplicant is the de-facto WPA supplicant for Linux and FreeBSD, providing WPA support to these operating systems provided your wireless card driver supports it.

Configuring wpa_supplicant to work with your OS is an exercise outside the scope of this document, but the minimum wpa_supplicant.conf configuration stanza required to work with CoovaAAA will look like:

network={
	ssid="Your-SSID"
	key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
	eapol_flags=0
	identity="Your-CoovaAAA-Login"
	password="Your-CoovaAAA-Password"
}

Replace Your-SSID, Your-CoovaAAA-Login, and Your-CoovaAAA-Password with the necessary replacements.

The encryption settings you use (ciphers, etc) should be auto-detected by wpa_supplicant with the above configuration, tested with Ubuntu 7.10/a pre-release wpa_supplicant 0.6.0. Whether you need the eapol option will depend on your router, but is often necessary with simple "dumb" routers that are running CoovaAP.