aAPT
dDebian
fFFmpeg
jJava
mMercurial: Usage
oOCaml
pPostgreSQL

Home OS

wpa_supplicant

Initial configuration

Sample configuration (/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf) allowing wpa_gui and wpa_cli to access and modify configuration if the user is in the plugdev group:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=plugdev
update_config=1

Optionally disable the p2p interface:

p2p_disabled=1

Fix wpa_supplicant conf file permissions:

chmod 640 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

For ifupdown add the wpa-conf line to the wireless interface:

iface wlan0 inet manual
    wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Start/stop wpa_supplicant automatically when the wireless interface is up/down:

systemctl disable wpa_supplicant
systemctl enable wpa_supplicant@wlan0.service