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Silent-Hunter
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:00 pm    Post subject: Removing wpa_supplicant Reply with quote

I don't know why I have it installed. I use wicd, not wpa_supplicant. wpa_supplicant refuses to start because it can't find its configuration file, and as a result, rpcbind doesn't start either. Unmerging wpa_supplicant makes the wifi not work. Can I make some kind of dummy wpa_supplicant.conf so it doesn't complain, but doesn't use wpa_supplicant instead of wicd?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need wpa_supplicant to connect to secured networks, wicd is not a replacement of wpa_supplicant.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh. Well, I figured it out. I had net.wlp3s0 in the default runlevel. That was calling wpa_supplicant at boot, where it would complain about lack of wpa_supplicant.conf. I assume it's called by wicd then?
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