wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager coexistance?

[Paul Ionescu]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:18:54 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:

> Has anyone got these to work side by side as yet?
> 
> It seems that each one is always trying to grab control of the wifi
> adapter - I tell NetworkManager to connect to my local AP - which it does,
> then wpa disconnects it and scans itself. Same the other way around.
> 
> Is there any way to make these co-exist? I guess what would be really neat
> is to have WPA functionality in NetworkManger - then you get a nice little
> GUI to configure 802.1x.... Great for those EAP-TTLS access points out
> there!
> 
> --

Hi Steven,

NM 0.6 is out and it is supposed to do just that (use wpa_supplicant as
backend for WPA/WPA2)
Just wait a little to be included in the FC devel tree.