Why does wpa_supplicant presents in my system?
Hello! I discovered this
# systemctl list-units
...
wpa_supplicant.service loaded active running WPA supplicant
...
# LANG=en_US apt-get remove wpa_supplicant
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package wpa_supplicant
# whereis wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant /etc/wpa_supplicant /usr/share/man/man8/wpa_supplicant.8.gz
# (zcat $(ls -tr /var/log/apt/history.log*.gz); cat /var/log/apt/history.log) 2>/dev/null | egrep '^(Commandline: apt(-get)? install)' | grep -v aptdaemon | egrep '^Commandline:' | grep wpa
...showed nothing...
May be I installed it manually?
But now I want to find free alternative that will be faster then NetworkManager and free unlike as wpa_supplicant.
Please, how to remove package wpa_supplicant at all?
You can use the "Synaptic Package Manager" or, in a terminal:
$ sudo apt remove wpasupplicant
... but I very much doubt you want to remove your ability to connect to encrypted Wifi networks! That is what the package provides. NetworkManager relies on it. And alternative to NetworkManager is Wicd, which depends as well on wpa_supplicant.
thank you. Is there any free alternative?
BSD license is a permissive free license.
"LEGAL
wpa_supplicant is copyright (c) 2003-2016, Jouni Malinen <name at domain> and contributors. All Rights Reserved.
This program is licensed under the BSD license (the one with advertisement clause removed)."
As loldier says: wpa_supplicant is free software. As all software in Trisquel's repository.
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/README
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