Wpa_supplicant mystery

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Friday 09 May 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I was looking through /var/log/ on my laptop,
> and saw that there were a number of wpa_supplicant.log* files.
> I found this slightly puzzling, as I am not using WPA.
> I ran "chkconfig --list | grep wpa" and found that
> wpa_supplicant was indeed off.
>
> But when I ran "ps aux | grep wpa" I saw that
> wpa_supplicant was nevertheless running.
> So I ran "sudo service wpa_supplicant stop".
> This had the immediate effect of breaking my WiFi connection,
> which only started again when I ran "sudo service NetworkManager restart".
>
> If in fact wpa_supplicant is a necessary part of NetworkManager
> even if one is not using WPA,
> would it not make more sense to change its name?
>
> Everything to do with WiFi in Fedora seems bizarre and confusing ...

NetworkManager uses wpa_supplicant to do network security this way it doesnt 
need to reinvent the wheel.  it is the same on all distros.

Dennis
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