wicd remembers ssids and keys. They're stored in /var/lib/wicd/connections.
I've never had to do anything with wpa-supplicant beyond installing it. -fsr On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > Le 14/05/2016 17:04, emnin...@riseup.net a écrit : > >> Am Sat, 14 May 2016 07:55:35 -0400 >> schrieb ". fsmithred" <fsmith...@gmail.com>: >> >> I've installed devuan beta from the amd64 netinstall and DVD, and >>> from the i386 CD, and in all cases, when I got to the tasksel window, >>> there was a checkbox for default devuan desktop followed by a list of >>> desktop environments to choose. I chose xfce in all cases. Do the >>> other choices not work? >>> >> They seem to work, that's not a problem. Only, i did not know xfce was >> the default devuan desktop and on the page where you have to choose the >> software to install there is only said Devuan desktop. May be it would >> be good, to put "(xfce)" behind. So also an uninformed like me, >> knows ;) ;) >> >> Ceni, you can get from launchpad ubuntu or via aptosid (as .deb >> packages). >> >> I'm kind of uncertain, >> >> a) if wpa_supplicant and wicd can stay together (i know the arch wiki >> tells to de-activate wpa_supplicant if you use networkmanager; >> >> b) if wpa_supplicant needs dhcpcd. In Voidlinux, wpa_supplicant is >> started as a hook of dhcpcd ... >> >> T >> > You have mostly two ways to deal with wifi. > > 1) you select the station and enter the key everytime you connect. > 2) your system remembers the ssid's and keys of all stations you need > and it connects you automatically - this is called wifi-roaming. > > I think wicd matches the first case only. > > AFAIU, ceni allows you to either work according to the first method or > make the basic configuration of wpa_supplicant for the second method, > something you can also do with a text editor. There are many howtos on the > web, search for the following 3 keywords "wifi" "roaming" "wpa_supplicant". > > wpa_supplicant may or may not invoke the dhcp client, depending on > what it reads in /etc/network/interfaces. > > Hope this helps. > > Didier > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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