Re: ifcfg-rh and wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 09:58 +0200, Oncaphillis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm using Fedora16 and I'm trying to set up NetworkManager to connect
> to a wlan on startup via /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip/ifcfg-wlan0 or
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip/ifcfg-<ESSID>.  It seems the settings in
> /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant are ignored if wpa_supplicant is managed
> by the NetworkManager,but I don't see any option to pass the -D<driver>
> option to wpa_supplicant.

Correct, the settings in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant can be harmful
when NetworkManager is used, because NetworkManager figures out whether
to use the wext, nl80211, or wired driver as appropriate.  What's the
reason you want to use a specific supplicant driver?

Dan