On Friday 09 May 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was looking through /var/log/ on my laptop, > and saw that there were a number of wpa_supplicant.log* files. > I found this slightly puzzling, as I am not using WPA. > I ran "chkconfig --list | grep wpa" and found that > wpa_supplicant was indeed off. > > But when I ran "ps aux | grep wpa" I saw that > wpa_supplicant was nevertheless running. > So I ran "sudo service wpa_supplicant stop". > This had the immediate effect of breaking my WiFi connection, > which only started again when I ran "sudo service NetworkManager restart". > > If in fact wpa_supplicant is a necessary part of NetworkManager > even if one is not using WPA, > would it not make more sense to change its name? > > Everything to do with WiFi in Fedora seems bizarre and confusing ... NetworkManager uses wpa_supplicant to do network security this way it doesnt need to reinvent the wheel. it is the same on all distros. Dennis
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