On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Rick Thomas wrote: > Can anybody tell me why I have wpasupplicant installed, even though > I don't have a wifi interface on this machine?
The "wpa" is an unfortunate naming of the tool. It is required to connect to any 802.1X network, including wired ethernet when 802.1X is active on the access switches. You'll be hard-pressed to find any such networks outside of Wifi and wired corporate networks, though. Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1X for more information if you're interested. I am unsure if networkmanager would crash without it installed, or would do the right thing and just disable 802.1X support. The hard dependency of networkmanager on wpasupplicant really ought to mean just that (that networkmanager cannot work without wpasupplicant), but unfortunately you cannot take that at face value anymore[1]. > If I try to deinstall wpasuplicant, it then wants to also remove > network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Should I just let it? > What would be the consequences if I do? If you use a static /etc/network/interfaces, you're likelly to be much better off without that desktop fluff. IMHO, you should just get rid of it, at most you will lose the dekstop applets that show ethernet state. It is not like wpasupplicant is a heavy burden on a typical desktop system, though. But yes, it is annoying to have it running when you don't need it. [1] but if you DO know it is false, file a bug because you really should be able to remove wpasupplicant if it won't destroy networkmanager. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111114133530.ga22...@khazad-dum.debian.net
