[vox-tech] wpa_supplicant on debian jessie

[Nick Schmalenberger]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 06:53:20PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote:
> This is happening on two different laptops. One is using a usb wifi fob
> with realtek chip set. My new laptop
> uses intel wifi. I use wicd to select and bring up a connection. The first
> try always takes a very long time
> and fails with bad password. If I then immediately click connect again, it
> connects in 1 or 2 seconds and remains
> connected for a variable length of time. At starbucks (open AP) it connects
> right away but disconnects
> 4 to 6 seconds later. I haven't tried all permutations of machine and AP
> but a recent debian seems to be the
> main common point. Problem started on the old machine after upgrading to
> sid. And now the new machine is
> installed with jessie. (which was sid when the old machine was upgraded)
> Its on my new machine I noticed the log files
> growing and saw entries for wpa_supplicant every few seconds (syslog and
> daemon.log)
> Richard
>
Despite all the seeming bloatedness of NetworkManager, I've had
quite good luck with it on my current Debian laptop. It
especially helped once I found nmtui, because I don't have any
window manager that works decently with the NetworkManager gui
and I think that was my main source of frustration with it
before. 

The only other possible problem I can see with it, is if I want
to manually change my ip on a interface I just added with vlan
tagging or something, NetworkManager may interfere, but I usually
only have to do that at work, where I have a Mac whose GUI
works decently enough even for vlan tagging.
-Nick