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wpa_supplicant

Hi,

two questions, please
wpa_supplicant works fine , but it would be good to know: which are alternatives? iwd from intel not for everyone, but is it open or closed source? wicd is not maintained, if i see right. Is there anything else?

then, on my Artix installation exists the service, but is disabled. Instead /usr/bin/wpa_supplicant -u is running. Is it normal that the service hasn't been started?

Re: wpa_supplicant

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which are alternatives?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#Utilities

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but is it open or closed source?

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$ pacman -Si iwd
Repository      : galaxy
Name            : iwd
[...]
URL             : https://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/wireless/iwd.git/
Licenses        : LGPL

LGPL is an open-source license, and URL points to the source code.

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then, on my Artix installation exists the service, but is disabled. Instead /usr/bin/wpa_supplicant -u is running. Is it normal that the service hasn't been started?

If you have a network manager (like ConnMan, which is default in Artix's GUI installs), yes, and it's being handled by it.
 

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cool, thanks