On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:31:54PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 05:06:47PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> >
> >
> > I discovered the name of wicd on this list recently. I didn't
> > try it, therefore I can't compare, but it looks that it has more
> > diverse interfaces than wpasupplicant, CLI, GUI and even Curses. I
> > will probably try it the first time I install Devuan on a laptop.
> >
> > I imagine neither wpasupplicant nor wicd will be infected by
> > Systemd, and you'll have the choice between them.
>
> It's not entirely a choice. wicd depends on wicd-daemon, which depends
> on wpa-supplicant.
>
> It looks as if, to some extent, wicd may constiture still more
> interfaces to wpasupplicant, possibly with some state or smarts of its
> own.
AFAICT, anything that can connect to a WPA network on Linux depends on
wpa_supplicant to do so.
iwconfig can only handle open or WEP networks; I haven't been able to find
out if iw can do WPA.
Thanks,
Isaac Dunham
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