[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#563964: Bug#563964: network-manager: causes multiple instances of wpa_supplicant to start

[Marcus Better]

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Michael Biebl wrote:
> That's not a bug in network-manager.
> NetworkManager talks to wpa_supplicant over D-Bus (and wpa_supplicant is
> autostarted by dbus if it is not running)
> If you are configuring a connection vi /etc/network/interfaces, tell
> this wpa_supplicant to provide the dbus interface (there is a command
> line switch for that).

I see. Do you know how to pass that switch through ifupdown? I haven't
maanged to figure it out, short of editing /etc/wpa_supplicant/functions.sh.

Also I wonder if this is not really a bug, or at least a documentation
issue, either in wpasupplicant or network-manager. After all
network-manager in managed mode, following the documented procedure,
clearly conflicts with ifupdown/wpa_supplicant, again following the
documented procedure for roaming support.

Marcus
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