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EDIT: I inspected the wpa_supplicant service conf file in /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant. It doesn't seem to pass any flag to wpa_supplicant as it is, but nonethless this seems to be sufficient to manage wireless networks:

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# conf.d file for wpa_supplicant

# uncomment this if wpa_supplicant starts up before your network interface
# is ready and it causes issues
# rc_want="dev-settle"

# Please check man 8 wpa_supplicant for more information about the options
# wpa_supplicant accepts.
#
wpa_supplicant_args=""

Hi everyone,

I want to only rely on wpa_supplicant for managing internet connections, so I got rid of NetworkManager and transferred all my connections in my wpa_supplicant.conf. Then, I obviously added wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd to runlevel default in OpenRC (I use Artix OpenRC).

However, the "default" wpa_supplicant OpenRC daemon (shipped through "wpa_supplicant-openrc") doesn't seem to work for my wired connection (despite working flawlessly for each other wireless connection in my wpa_supplicant.conf).

In order to connect to the internet through my wired connection, I have to stop the wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd services, kill every instance of them running, and then run:

sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -d -f ~/wpa.log


(I included the debug flags) and

sudo dhcpcd eth0

Then, it connects. To make sure it's actually connecting to my wired network, i commended-out all other networks from my wpa_supplicant.conf and disabled wifi via rfkill.

How may I "automate" connection to my wired network when I turn on my laptop?  Do I have to write a custom OpenRC script?
What I would like to happen, is my laptop always connecting to the wired connection if available, switching to wireless if it's not.
I know there are a few people in the forum actively using wpa_supplicant to manage connections, so feel free to share any hint or suggestion. I'm here to learn

I have basically done the exact same thing, got rid of connman and use something much simpler that basically acts as a frontend for wpa_supplicant.

I have a program that will automatically connect to a wifi network either based on priority, whatever it finds in /etc/wpa_supplicant or just giving it a manual SSID.

Would you be interested in seeing it?