[arch-general] Exiting wpa_supplicant

Tue Oct 23 18:29:37 EDT 2012

Am 23.10.2012 17:14, schrieb nelsonmarambio at gmx.de:
> the delay of 10 seconds is recommended by the computing centre which maintains the university-wide WLAN. Without the delay dhcpcd returns a timeout.

The delay is stupid. And dhcpcd should not even try to get a lease until
the connection is established.

> Your reasons against wpa_supplicant are conclusive but neither netcfg nor wicd (which I would prefer) are supported here. Especially the encryption method that I have to configure in wicd is not documented.

Everything that is supported by wpa_supplicant is supported by netcfg.

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