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#1 2013-04-21 06:22:42

gunjah292
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From: Hamburg
Registered: 2011-05-05
Posts: 186

Problem with NetworkManager and WPA Supplicant

Hey,

everytime I boot I have to run wifi-menu first in order to connect to WiFi via NetworkManager.

:: Scanning for networks                                               [ DONE ] 

              ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
              │ Select the network you wish to use             │  
              │ Flags description:                             │  
              │  * - handmade profile present                  │  
              │  + - automatically generated profile present   │  
              │  - - no profile present                        │  
              │  ! - active connection present                 │  
              │ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │  
              │ │   Tilgin-SP8bzUB8QhZR      + wpa     -57   │ │  
              │ │                            ! wpa2    -77   │ │  
              │ │   FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7390  - wpa     -80   │ │  
              │ │   FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7112  - wpa     -89   │ │  
              │ │                                            │ │  
              │ │                                            │ │  
              │ │                                            │ │  
              │ │                                            │ │  
              │ │                                            │ │  
              │ │                                            │ │  
              │ │                                            │ │  
              │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │  
              ├────────────────────────────────────────────────┤  
              │         <   OK    >     <Abbrechen>            │  
              └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  
                
:: wlp1s0-Tilgin-SP8bzUB8QhZR up                                       [ BUSY ] Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
Delete '/run/wpa_supplicant/wlp1s0' manually if it is not used anymore
Failed to initialize control interface '/run/wpa_supplicant'.
You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.

 > wpa_supplicant did not start, possible configuration error
                                                                       [FAILED]

I tried deleting several coniguration files concerning wpa_supplicant. Maybe I haven't found the right one yet!

Is there maybe a command that could cleanse my system from all wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager config files??

Last edited by gunjah292 (2013-04-21 06:38:26)


KDE Plasma, ThinkPad X380 Yoga, Intel Core i7-8550U, Intel UHD Graphics 620, 512GB PCIe-NVMe SSD (OPAL 2.0), 16GB PC4-19200 (2400 MHz)

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#2 2013-04-25 21:05:37

gunjah292
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From: Hamburg
Registered: 2011-05-05
Posts: 186

Re: Problem with NetworkManager and WPA Supplicant

Yeah I tried deleting the files mentioned, but it didn't change anything. I guess it has do to something with the WiFi I connected to during the installation of Arch. Doesn't anyone have a clue about what it could be?


KDE Plasma, ThinkPad X380 Yoga, Intel Core i7-8550U, Intel UHD Graphics 620, 512GB PCIe-NVMe SSD (OPAL 2.0), 16GB PC4-19200 (2400 MHz)

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#3 2013-05-09 09:30:27

Hutchism
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Registered: 2013-05-01
Posts: 34

Re: Problem with NetworkManager and WPA Supplicant

Not sure if I'm on the right track here, but you can start/stop/enable/disable etc NetworkManager with:
systemctl start NetworkManager

wifi-menu will not work if NetworkManager is running and vice-versa.

I use NetworkManager, but if I don't boot into a gui cause somethings broken, then I have to stop NetworkManager in order for wifi-menu to work. Apparently NetworkManager is not the 'best' solution but it works well enough for me. I'm relatively new to all this, so don't take my word wink

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