During launch, wpa_supplicant blows up on... DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=0
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant#Configuration recommends... ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel The 3 lines in my wpa_supplicant.conf that are not commented out are... ctrl_interface_group=0 ap_scan=1 ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel Thank you for your help. It works. I live in a condo building. As a regular user "wpa_cli scan" followed by "wpa_cli scan_result" shows approximately a couple of dozen machines. BTW I've disabled MVM and wifi still works. One last question; I occasionally see signs in various places saying Our network name is "foo" and password is "bar". My reading of the wpa_cli man page indicates I should use... wpa_cli password foo bar ...to log on. Is that correct? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
