Re: ifcfg-rh and wpa_supplicant

[Oncaphillis <oncaphillis snafu de>]

On 05/18/2012 11:23 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 09:58 +0200, Oncaphillis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I'm using Fedora16 and I'm trying to set up NetworkManager to connect
> > to a wlan on startup via /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip/ifcfg-wlan0 or
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip/ifcfg-<ESSID>.  It seems the settings in
> > /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant are ignored if wpa_supplicant is managed
> > by the NetworkManager,but I don't see any option to pass the -D<driver>
> > option to wpa_supplicant.
>
> Correct, the settings in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant can be harmful
> when NetworkManager is used, because NetworkManager figures out whether
> to use the wext, nl80211, or wired driver as appropriate.  What's the
> reason you want to use a specific supplicant driver?
>
> Dan

Simply the observation that wpa_supplicant fails to associate when
not using -Dwext

Thanks

O.