DEPRECATED

Mentioned at Undeadly auto-join feature was added as feature of hostname.if, which works quite well with wpa_supplicant--rendering this script useless for modern OpenBSD-CURRENT post 2018/Jul/12. This repo is available if one requires the scripts for an older OpenBSD--meaning this repo is no longer maintained.

wico

A wireless connection manager.

Wico is an exercise in creating wifi manager for OpenBSD using the standard unix-like tools provided in the base system, such gems as awk, cat, grep, sed, uniq etc...

Ensure you have proper permissions to use ifconfig, wpa_supplicant, and possibly dhclient.

Documentation on this page may get out of sync. The most updated documentation is listed in the man pages.

Synopsis

/usr/local/bin/wico, ~/bin/wico

/etc/wico.conf, ~/.wico.conf

Description

The wico(1) utility is a wireless connection manager for networks according to the wico.conf configuration file. The file is very basic, and only requires a few items for wirelss network management.

• intf The interface that wireless connections should connect over.
• wpa_supplicant_conf The location where wpa_supplicant.conf is located.
• network Network settings are encapsulated by {}, and are listed below:
  • nwid The ssid that you wish to connect too.
  • wpakey The WPA key used to connect to the ssid. For added security use a hashed key.
  • options Additional options that can be passed to ifconfig.
  • enterprise If set to "true", wico tries to use wpa_supplicant to perform the desired handshaking to connect to the network.

Example

intf=iwn0
wpa_supplicant_conf=/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

network {
    nwid=myssid
    wpakey=myhashedkeyORnot
}

network {
    nwid=myuniversity
    options=wpaakms 802.1x
    enterprise=true
}