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Hostapd and WPS



  • Hi guys,

    I’m trying to enable WPS on an Omega 2 for a project I’m working on (it won’t be triggered by a button, so apparently a little more secure). There’s quite a bit of information online on how to do this for OpenWrt, basically you:

    • Add option wps_pushbutton '1 ' to a config wifi-iface section that is configured for WPA2-PSK in /etc/config/wireless
    • opkg update
    • opkg remove wpad-mini
    • opkg install wpad hostapd-utils
    • reboot

    I’ve worked out that before running the above, the lede-project repos need to be re-enabled for OPKG, by modifying the /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf file, which is fine.

    However, when I run: hostapd_cli wps_pbc , I get “Failed to connect to hostapd - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory”.

    I’ve read that problems can be caused by the /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf file. However, I’m missing the whole /etc/hostapd directory…

    Would someone be able to shine some light on this for me? Or point me in the right direction.

    Thanks,

    Oli

    Links:
    https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/basic
    https://volatilesystems.org/wps-setup-on-openwrt.html



  • Just found out you can get hostapd to show more debug messages, this is what I'm currently getting:

    root@Omega-92CA:/etc/config# hostapd -d /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
    Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
    nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
    Failed to initialize driver 'nl80211'
    wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED
    wlan0: AP-DISABLED
    wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
    hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started

    And this is my hostapd.conf file:

    interface=wlan0
    bridge=br0
    country_code=AUS
    ctrl_interface=wlan0
    ctrl_interface_group=0
    ssid=KITT
    hw_mode=g
    channel=1
    wpa=3
    wpa_passphrase=georgeisyourfriend
    wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    wpa_pairwise=TKIP
    rsn_pairwise=CCMP
    beacon_int=100
    auth_algs=3
    macaddr_acl=0
    wmm_enabled=1
    eap_reauth_period=360000000



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