Wpa supplicant: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:59, 9 March 2020

Can be enabled on NixOS with networking.wireless.enable = true.

By default `wpa_supplicant` will read its configuration from /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

To be able to use wpa_gui as user put the following in your configuration.nix file:

networking.wireless.extraConfig = ''
  ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant
  ctrl_interface_group=wheel
'';

Also your user must be part of the wheel group (replace USER with your username):

users.extraUsers.USER.extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];

From the shell terminal, use the `wpa_cli` command line tool and specify the network interface device with -g

wpa_cli -g /run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0
list_network
select_network 2

As a means to debug if things are working, open another terminal and examine the logs by:

journalctl -u wpa_supplicant -f

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 == Wpa_supplicant_gui ==
-To be able to use <code>wpa_gui</code> as user put the following in your <code>/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf</code>:
+To be able to use <code>wpa_gui</code> as user put the following in your <code>configuration.nix</code> file:
 <syntaxHighlight lang=ini>
-ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant
+networking.wireless.extraConfig = ''
-ctrl_interface_group=wheel
+  ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant
+  ctrl_interface_group=wheel
+'';
 </syntaxHighlight>