To clarify - wpakey was added to ifconfig as on option a little over two years ago -- October, 2010, and included in 4.9-release.
The wpapsk option required the use of wpa-psk(8), which was removed for 4.9-release. That program generated the 256-bit pre-shared key from a combination of the SSID and an ASCII passphrase.
The replacement of wpapsk with wpakey eliminated this pre-processing step.
Even if an admin had previously created a pre-shared key with wpa-psk(8), the wpapsk functionality was removed from ifconfig in August of 2011, and not present in 5.1-release.
At 5.1 and beyond, wpakey is required.
Last edited by jggimi; 16th January 2013 at 08:08 PM.
Reason: clarity
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