README.md

wpa_supplicant for Windows

Description

wpa_supplicant has support for being used as a WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant on Windows. Last official build for Windows 98 was 0.4.11 (2008-12-03) and last official build for Windows 2000 and later was 0.7.3 (2010-09-07). This port aims to restore functionality of modern versions of wpa_supplicant on older versions of Windows such as Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP SP1, etc.

⚠️ This port is designed for old versions of Windows and incompatible with Windows Vista and newer.

Currently, there are several different build configurations with different features.

Builds with WPAS_CTRL_IFACE=pipe:

• Official way to use wpa_supplicant on Windows platform
• All tools supported: win_if_list, wpa_passphrase, wpa_supplicant, wpasvc, wpa_cli, wpa_gui
• Not compatible with Windows 98

Builds with WPAS_CTRL_IFACE=udp:

• Extremely unstable, can be used only for testing purposes
• All tools supported: win_if_list, wpa_passphrase, wpa_supplicant, wpasvc, wpa_cli, wpa_gui
• Compatible with Windows 98 in theory

Builds with WPAS_CTRL_IFACE=standalone:

• Experimental way, wpa_gui built with bundled wpasvc instance without IPC
• Partial tools support: only win_if_list, wpa_passphrase, wpa_supplicant and wpa_gui. While wpasvc can be used as headless service or as debugging app, wpa_cli is completely broken
• Compatible with Windows 98

Requirements

Build requirements:

• CMake 3.15 or later
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• Qt 4.4.3 (static msvc2005 build)

Run requirements:

• WinPcap 3.1 for Windows 9x or WinPcap 4.1.3 for Windows 2000 and later

Screenshots

Links

• wpa_supplicant homepage: https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
• wpa_supplicant releases page: https://w1.fi/releases/
• WinPcap homepage: https://www.winpcap.org/
• WinPcap archive page: https://www.winpcap.org/archive/
• "Does wpa_supplicant work on Win98?" mailing list thread: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2008-July/018043.html