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 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
