Solaris Express Developer Edition What's New

x86: Wireless WPA Supplicant

This networking enhancement is new in the Developer 5/07 release.

The Solaris WiFi driver has been enhanced to support WiFi Protected Access (WPA) personal mode. Starting with this release, a new service, network/wpa, is introduced. The nwam(1M), dladm(1M), net80211(5), and ath(7D) drivers are enhanced to support the WPA personal mode. Users can access the WPA wireless network by using dladm or nwam:


$ dladm create-secobj -c wpa mykey  /* create a wpa psk specified by your AP */

$ dladm connect-wifi -e essid -k mykey