Re: how to disable WiFi / wpa-supplicant so hostapd can be used ?

2021-07-21 Thread Jason Vas Dias via networkmanager-list
Thank You so much, Thomas, for the most useful info ! RE: > Patch welcome to properly handle the release of a device > by setting it unmanaged. I will investigate this and see what I can do to improve management of wpa_supplicant (W_S) & wireless interfaces. I'd also like to develop a

Re: how to disable WiFi / wpa-supplicant so hostapd can be used ?

2021-07-21 Thread Thomas Haller via networkmanager-list
On Tue, 2021-07-20 at 22:04 +0100, Jason Vas Dias via networkmanager- list wrote: > If I do : >   # nmcli radio wifi off > , it disassociates the PHY for the device and I have to >   'rfkill $id unblock' . >   If I reenable wireless, and  do >   # systemctl stop wpa_supplicant >   # mv

Re: how to disable WiFi / wpa-supplicant so hostapd can be used ?

2021-07-20 Thread Jason Vas Dias via networkmanager-list
If I do : # nmcli radio wifi off , it disassociates the PHY for the device and I have to 'rfkill $id unblock' . If I reenable wireless, and do # systemctl stop wpa_supplicant # mv /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant.bin after starting NM, then I can run hostapd . I have

how to disable WiFi / wpa-supplicant so hostapd can be used ?

2021-07-20 Thread Jason Vas Dias via networkmanager-list
Good day - Whenever I try to run hostapd, NM still runs wpa-supplicant, which periodically tries to put the WiFi interface into scanning mode, which messes up the hostapd session . Please is there a config file setting or applet interaction to disable wpa-supplicant (and maybe configure &