Totoro gets WPA encryption!
Totoro, what I have come to name my home server, has finally got WPA encryption. This was the second time this week I’ve attempted a problem I had spent a long time troubling over and subsequently solved it with little effort.
After just a quick look-up I found that to start HostAP Daemon (hostapd) you have to supply it with a configuration file so the command I was actually looking for was:
sudo hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
After a short error and removing a single line, hostapd was up and running. Reconecting with the WPA2 password and everything is now up and running!
I’m trying to think of a way to use supergenpass to get a more reliable WPA password. I can’t use it uless I have a site in front of me but I can’t view a site untill I have connected.
My next step is to construct a script to make the whole process automated on startup. That and try and find a wireless card with a bit more bandwidth, though it may be a problem of CPU power.
