wicd remembers ssids and keys. They're stored in /var/lib/wicd/connections.
I've never had to do anything with wpa-supplicant beyond installing it.
-fsr
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
> Le 14/05/2016 17:04, emninger@??? a écrit :
>
>> Am Sat, 14 May 2016 07:55:35 -0400
>> schrieb ". fsmithred" <fsmithred@???>:
>>
>> I've installed devuan beta from the amd64 netinstall and DVD, and
>>> from the i386 CD, and in all cases, when I got to the tasksel window,
>>> there was a checkbox for default devuan desktop followed by a list of
>>> desktop environments to choose. I chose xfce in all cases. Do the
>>> other choices not work?
>>>
>> They seem to work, that's not a problem. Only, i did not know xfce was
>> the default devuan desktop and on the page where you have to choose the
>> software to install there is only said Devuan desktop. May be it would
>> be good, to put "(xfce)" behind. So also an uninformed like me,
>> knows ;) ;)
>>
>> Ceni, you can get from launchpad ubuntu or via aptosid (as .deb
>> packages).
>>
>> I'm kind of uncertain,
>>
>> a) if wpa_supplicant and wicd can stay together (i know the arch wiki
>> tells to de-activate wpa_supplicant if you use networkmanager;
>>
>> b) if wpa_supplicant needs dhcpcd. In Voidlinux, wpa_supplicant is
>> started as a hook of dhcpcd ...
>>
>> T
>>
> You have mostly two ways to deal with wifi.
>
> 1) you select the station and enter the key everytime you connect.
> 2) your system remembers the ssid's and keys of all stations you need
> and it connects you automatically - this is called wifi-roaming.
>
> I think wicd matches the first case only.
>
> AFAIU, ceni allows you to either work according to the first method or
> make the basic configuration of wpa_supplicant for the second method,
> something you can also do with a text editor. There are many howtos on the
> web, search for the following 3 keywords "wifi" "roaming" "wpa_supplicant".
>
> wpa_supplicant may or may not invoke the dhcp client, depending on
> what it reads in /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Didier
>
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