Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wpa_supplicant cannot find crypto routines

[Mick]

On Tuesday 28 Apr 2015 23:35:31 walt wrote:
> On 04/28/2015 09:59 AM, Justin Findlay wrote:
> > I am unable to emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.4-r1.  I've
> > encountered this on two systems now.
> >
> > The output included has been insensitively thrashed by thunderbird, so
> > I've also pasted it along with some other info.
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/jfindlay/b3fc74bda7d4cfb5a2dc
> >
> >
> > I'm wondering if I have an unusual USE flags situation that is causing
> > this
>
> In lieu of an informed opinion (which you've not been offered yet) I can
> say that I emerged it today on two different machines, and your useflags
> differ from mine in that I do *not* have these enabled:
>
> ap
> eap-sim
> p2p
> wimax
> wps
>
> Makes me wonder if I should be enabling any of those.


Not unless:

-You want to set up your PC as a wireless access point - USE="ap".

-You want to use a mobile phone SIM to undertake authentication to an AAA 
server to allow usage of a wireless access point - USE="eap-sim".

-You want to set up p2p ad-hoc wireless connections between WiFi clients 
without an access point (e.g. to transfer files, tether your phone to use it 
as modem to browse the Internet and vice versa) - USE="p2p".

-You have a WiMAX NIC and service account to be able to use this kind of 
network (IEEE 802.16) - USE="wimax".

-For some reason you want to use Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) to obtain access 
to your wireless AP, instead of entering the WPA2 passphrase directly in your 
wpa_supplicant.conf file (or networkmanager, connman, wicd, or what have you) 
- USE="wps".

PS.  WPS has a reported vulnerability making susceptible to brute-force 
attacks and you would probably have it already switched off on your router.

PPS.  I have had no problem emerging net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.4 with 
these USE flags:

(dbus eap-sim hs2-0 qt4 readline ssl wps -ap -fasteap -gnutls -p2p -ps3 -
selinux -smartcard -tdls -uncommon-eap-type)

-- 
Regards,
Mick