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    wpa_supplicant

    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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    wpa_supplicant info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to 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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    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

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    • network-configuration
    • wpa
    • network-configuration-manager
    • wpa2
    • network-xfce
    • xfce
    • wlan
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    Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about wpa_supplicant, and it has gotten 3 likes

    • Developed by Jouni Malinen
    • Open Source and Free product.
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    wpa_supplicant was added to AlternativeTo by on Oct 9, 2012 and this page was last updated Aug 24, 2015.
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