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Subject: Re: Is wpa_supplicant supposed to work with a hidden ssid?
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Doug Barton wrote:
> Meanwhile, what do you think of the attached patch for the example
> wpa_supplicant.conf file? It also seems to me that there are a lot of
> options in that sample conf file that don't work for FreeBSD. For
> example if I try to set device_name I get:
>
> Line 8: unknown global field 'device_name=foo'.
> Line 8: Invalid configuration line 'device_name=foo'.
> Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.
>
> Would it be worthwhile to also delete unusable options from the
> example file, and if so, which are the ones that are not usable?
>   

Many materials for wpa_supplicant and hostapd are included unchanged 
from Jouni's distribution.  It'd be good to make a pass over all of them 
as his development environment is very different than ours and many 
mechanisms described in the config files and (his) documentation do not 
apply to freebsd.  That said if you want to commit changes like the ones 
you attached feel free (no need to consult me unless you're looking for 
review).

    Sam