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1wpa_supplicant for Windows
2==========================
3
4Copyright (c) 2003-2009, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
5All Rights Reserved.
6
7This program is licensed under the BSD license (the one with
8advertisement clause removed).
9
10
11wpa_supplicant has support for being used as a WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X
12Supplicant on Windows. The current port requires that WinPcap
13(http://winpcap.polito.it/) is installed for accessing packets and the
14driver interface. Both release versions 3.0 and 3.1 are supported.
15
16The current port is still somewhat experimental. It has been tested
17mainly on Windows XP (SP2) with limited set of NDIS drivers. In
18addition, the current version has been reported to work with Windows
192000.
20
21All security modes have been verified to work (at least complete
22authentication and successfully ping a wired host):
23- plaintext
24- static WEP / open system authentication
25- static WEP / shared key authentication
26- IEEE 802.1X with dynamic WEP keys
27- WPA-PSK, TKIP, CCMP, TKIP+CCMP
28- WPA-EAP, TKIP, CCMP, TKIP+CCMP
29- WPA2-PSK, TKIP, CCMP, TKIP+CCMP
30- WPA2-EAP, TKIP, CCMP, TKIP+CCMP
31
32
33Building wpa_supplicant with mingw
34----------------------------------
35
36The default build setup for wpa_supplicant is to use MinGW and
37cross-compiling from Linux to MinGW/Windows. It should also be
38possible to build this under Windows using the MinGW tools, but that
39is not tested nor supported and is likely to require some changes to
40the Makefile unless cygwin is used.
41
42
43Building wpa_supplicant with MSVC
44---------------------------------
45
46wpa_supplicant can be built with Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. This
47has been tested with Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 and Visual
48Studio 2005 using the included nmake.mak as a Makefile for nmake. IDE
49can also be used by creating a project that includes the files and
50defines mentioned in nmake.mak. Example VS2005 solution and project
51files are included in vs2005 subdirectory. This can be used as a
52starting point for building the programs with VS2005 IDE. Visual Studio
532008 Express Edition is also able to use these project files.
54
55WinPcap development package is needed for the build and this can be
56downloaded from http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WpdPack_4_0_2.zip. The
57default nmake.mak expects this to be unpacked into C:\dev\WpdPack so
58that Include and Lib directories are in this directory. The files can be
59stored elsewhere as long as the WINPCAPDIR in nmake.mak is updated to
60match with the selected directory. In case a project file in the IDE is
61used, these Include and Lib directories need to be added to project
62properties as additional include/library directories.
63
64OpenSSL source package can be downloaded from
65http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8i.tar.gz and built and
66installed following instructions in INSTALL.W32. Note that if EAP-FAST
67support will be included in the wpa_supplicant, OpenSSL needs to be
68patched to# support it openssl-0.9.8i-tls-extensions.patch. The example
69nmake.mak file expects OpenSSL to be installed into C:\dev\openssl, but
70this directory can be modified by changing OPENSSLDIR variable in
71nmake.mak.
72
73If you do not need EAP-FAST support, you may also be able to use Win32
74binary installation package of OpenSSL from
75http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html instead of building
76the library yourself. In this case, you will need to copy Include and
77Lib directories in suitable directory, e.g., C:\dev\openssl for the
78default nmake.mak. Copy {Win32OpenSSLRoot}\include into
79C:\dev\openssl\include and make C:\dev\openssl\lib subdirectory with
80files from {Win32OpenSSLRoot}\VC (i.e., libeay*.lib and ssleay*.lib).
81This will end up using dynamically linked OpenSSL (i.e., .dll files are
82needed) for it. Alternative, you can copy files from
83{Win32OpenSSLRoot}\VC\static to create a static build (no OpenSSL .dll
84files needed).
85
86
87Building wpa_supplicant for cygwin
88----------------------------------
89
90wpa_supplicant can be built for cygwin by installing the needed
91development packages for cygwin. This includes things like compiler,
92make, openssl development package, etc. In addition, developer's pack
93for WinPcap (WPdpack.zip) from
94http://winpcap.polito.it/install/default.htm is needed.
95
96.config file should enable only one driver interface,
97CONFIG_DRIVER_NDIS. In addition, include directories may need to be
98added to match the system. An example configuration is available in
99defconfig. The library and include files for WinPcap will either need
100to be installed in compiler/linker default directories or their
101location will need to be adding to .config when building
102wpa_supplicant.
103
104Othen than this, the build should be more or less identical to Linux
105version, i.e., just run make after having created .config file. An
106additional tool, win_if_list.exe, can be built by running "make
107win_if_list".
108
109
110Building wpa_gui
111----------------
112
113wpa_gui uses Qt application framework from Trolltech. It can be built
114with the open source version of Qt4 and MinGW. Following commands can
115be used to build the binary in the Qt 4 Command Prompt:
116
117# go to the root directory of wpa_supplicant source code
118cd wpa_gui-qt4
119qmake -o Makefile wpa_gui.pro
120make
121# the wpa_gui.exe binary is created into 'release' subdirectory
122
123
124Using wpa_supplicant for Windows
125--------------------------------
126
127wpa_supplicant, wpa_cli, and wpa_gui behave more or less identically to
128Linux version, so instructions in README and example wpa_supplicant.conf
129should be applicable for most parts. In addition, there is another
130version of wpa_supplicant, wpasvc.exe, which can be used as a Windows
131service and which reads its configuration from registry instead of
132text file.
133
134When using access points in "hidden SSID" mode, ap_scan=2 mode need to
135be used (see wpa_supplicant.conf for more information).
136
137Windows NDIS/WinPcap uses quite long interface names, so some care
138will be needed when starting wpa_supplicant. Alternatively, the
139adapter description can be used as the interface name which may be
140easier since it is usually in more human-readable
141format. win_if_list.exe can be used to find out the proper interface
142name.
143
144Example steps in starting up wpa_supplicant:
145
146# win_if_list.exe
147ifname: \Device\NPF_GenericNdisWanAdapter
148description: Generic NdisWan adapter
149
150ifname: \Device\NPF_{769E012B-FD17-4935-A5E3-8090C38E25D2}
151description: Atheros Wireless Network Adapter (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler)
152
153ifname: \Device\NPF_{732546E7-E26C-48E3-9871-7537B020A211}
154description: Intel 8255x-based Integrated Fast Ethernet (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler)
155
156
157Since the example configuration used Atheros WLAN card, the middle one
158is the correct interface in this case. The interface name for -i
159command line option is the full string following "ifname:" (the
160"\Device\NPF_" prefix can be removed). In other words, wpa_supplicant
161would be started with the following command:
162
163# wpa_supplicant.exe -i'{769E012B-FD17-4935-A5E3-8090C38E25D2}' -c wpa_supplicant.conf -d
164
165-d optional enables some more debugging (use -dd for even more, if
166needed). It can be left out if debugging information is not needed.
167
168With the alternative mechanism for selecting the interface, this
169command has identical results in this case:
170
171# wpa_supplicant.exe -iAtheros -c wpa_supplicant.conf -d
172
173
174Simple configuration example for WPA-PSK:
175
176#ap_scan=2
177ctrl_interface=
178network={
179	ssid="test"
180	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
181	proto=WPA
182	pairwise=TKIP
183	psk="secret passphrase"
184}
185
186(remove '#' from the comment out ap_scan line to enable mode in which
187wpa_supplicant tries to associate with the SSID without doing
188scanning; this allows APs with hidden SSIDs to be used)
189
190
191wpa_cli.exe and wpa_gui.exe can be used to interact with the
192wpa_supplicant.exe program in the same way as with Linux. Note that
193ctrl_interface is using UNIX domain sockets when built for cygwin, but
194the native build for Windows uses named pipes and the contents of the
195ctrl_interface configuration item is used to control access to the
196interface. Anyway, this variable has to be included in the configuration
197to enable the control interface.
198
199
200Example SDDL string formats:
201
202(local admins group has permission, but nobody else):
203
204ctrl_interface=SDDL=D:(A;;GA;;;BA)
205
206("A" == "access allowed", "GA" == GENERIC_ALL == all permissions, and
207"BA" == "builtin administrators" == the local admins.  The empty fields
208are for flags and object GUIDs, none of which should be required in this
209case.)
210
211(local admins and the local "power users" group have permissions,
212but nobody else):
213
214ctrl_interface=SDDL=D:(A;;GA;;;BA)(A;;GA;;;PU)
215
216(One ACCESS_ALLOWED ACE for GENERIC_ALL for builtin administrators, and
217one ACCESS_ALLOWED ACE for GENERIC_ALL for power users.)
218
219(close to wide open, but you have to be a valid user on
220the machine):
221
222ctrl_interface=SDDL=D:(A;;GA;;;AU)
223
224(One ACCESS_ALLOWED ACE for GENERIC_ALL for the "authenticated users"
225group.)
226
227This one would allow absolutely everyone (including anonymous
228users) -- this is *not* recommended, since named pipes can be attached
229to from anywhere on the network (i.e. there's no "this machine only"
230like there is with 127.0.0.1 sockets):
231
232ctrl_interface=SDDL=D:(A;;GA;;;BU)(A;;GA;;;AN)
233
234(BU == "builtin users", "AN" == "anonymous")
235
236See also [1] for the format of ACEs, and [2] for the possible strings
237that can be used for principal names.
238
239[1]
240http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/secauthz/security/ace_strings.asp
241[2]
242http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/secauthz/security/sid_strings.asp
243
244
245Starting wpa_supplicant as a Windows service (wpasvc.exe)
246---------------------------------------------------------
247
248wpa_supplicant can be started as a Windows service by using wpasvc.exe
249program that is alternative build of wpa_supplicant.exe. Most of the
250core functionality of wpasvc.exe is identical to wpa_supplicant.exe,
251but it is using Windows registry for configuration information instead
252of a text file and command line parameters. In addition, it can be
253registered as a service that can be started automatically or manually
254like any other Windows service.
255
256The root of wpa_supplicant configuration in registry is
257HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wpa_supplicant. This level includes global
258parameters and a 'interfaces' subkey with all the interface configuration
259(adapter to confname mapping). Each such mapping is a subkey that has
260'adapter', 'config', and 'ctrl_interface' values.
261
262This program can be run either as a normal command line application,
263e.g., for debugging, with 'wpasvc.exe app' or as a Windows service.
264Service need to be registered with 'wpasvc.exe reg <full path to
265wpasvc.exe>'. Alternatively, 'wpasvc.exe reg' can be used to register
266the service with the current location of wpasvc.exe. After this, wpasvc
267can be started like any other Windows service (e.g., 'net start wpasvc')
268or it can be configured to start automatically through the Services tool
269in administrative tasks. The service can be unregistered with
270'wpasvc.exe unreg'.
271
272If the service is set to start during system bootup to make the
273network connection available before any user has logged in, there may
274be a long (half a minute or so) delay in starting up wpa_supplicant
275due to WinPcap needing a driver called "Network Monitor Driver" which
276is started by default on demand.
277
278To speed up wpa_supplicant start during system bootup, "Network
279Monitor Driver" can be configured to be started sooner by setting its
280startup type to System instead of the default Demand. To do this, open
281up Device Manager, select Show Hidden Devices, expand the "Non
282Plug-and-Play devices" branch, double click "Network Monitor Driver",
283go to the Driver tab, and change the Demand setting to System instead.
284
285Configuration data is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wpa_supplicant\configs
286key. Each configuration profile has its own key under this. In terms of text
287files, each profile would map to a separate text file with possibly multiple
288networks. Under each profile, there is a networks key that lists all
289networks as a subkey. Each network has set of values in the same way as
290network block in the configuration file. In addition, blobs subkey has
291possible blobs as values.
292
293HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wpa_supplicant\configs\test\networks\0000
294   ssid="example"
295   key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
296
297See win_example.reg for an example on how to setup wpasvc.exe
298parameters in registry. It can also be imported to registry as a
299starting point for the configuration.
300