On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 06:10:01PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > If you need this right at boot time, you'll need to run wpa_supplicant > from the hostname.rum0 file (adding a line "!/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start" > may possibly work, but this is not tested). Though dhclient will hang around > in the background if it's unable to obtain an IP address at startup.
I am using wpa-supplicant with wired 802.1X at work and I do start it from hostname.if(5). But keep in mind that this means that you've got to store your password in cleartext somewhere on your disk. This is the one and only case I see the need for a network manager who's capable of talking to some sort of keyring like gnome does it. Frank.
