hostapd and fedora19 wifi hotspot

[Reindl Harald]

Am 16.07.2013 17:14, schrieb Gianluca Cecchi:
> Possibly NetworkManager that keeps wpa_supplicant running could
> interfere and prevent hostapd to set AP mode?
> 
> [g.cecchi at ope46 ~]$ sudo systemctl status wpa_supplicant
> wpa_supplicant.service - WPA Supplicant daemon
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service; disabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Tue 2013-07-16 09:18:38 CEST; 7h ago
>  Main PID: 497 (wpa_supplicant)
>    CGroup: name=systemd:/system/wpa_supplicant.service
>            └─497 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -f
> /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -c /etc/wpa_supplican...t
> 
> But as soon as I stop wpa, NetworkManager starts it again...
>
> I didn't find any option to prevent NM to keep wpa running... is it
> hardcoded? How to stop wpa and retry with hostapd?

* a) file a bug for NM
* b) systemctl mask wpa_supplicant.service

or switch to classic network.service for static configured
machines and disable the complete NM crap - hence you can
even use "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" in "ifcfg-XX"-files

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