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wpa_supplicant

wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are...

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Linux
  • Xfce
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  • Developed by

    FI flagJouni Malinen

  • Licensing

    Open Source (BSD-2-Clause) and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Installed as a dependency by most other network managers (e.g., Wicd), however can be used directly in roaming mode and via gui interface using wpa-gui

What is wpa_supplicant?

wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are included with wpa_supplicant.

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