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lksgkjhsgkjh
10y ago
vdev was already given up again: > This system is mothballed. From its Github page at https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev
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lksgkjhsgkjh
10y ago
Umm, how did you configure networkd to run wpa_supplicant? Hint: Networkd doesn't run wpa_supplicant. So it can't "hide" anything about it. Or only as much as `ifconfig` "hides" errors from wpa_supplicant.
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lksgkjhsgkjh
10y ago
No, I say that networkd is not the right tool for every usecase. For some it is nice, for others not. Not that different from other tools like `ifupdown`, `NetworkManager`, `wicd`, `connman`, ...
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lksgkjhsgkjh
10y ago
`ifconfig`, `ip`, `dhclient` or Debian's `ifupdown` don't care about errors from wpa_supplicant either. Let's drop them too? Or actually all of them (including networkd) work fine, but are not the right tool for every usecas
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lksgkjhsgkjh
10y ago
I don't think the kernel has a session concept that corresponds to the session concept of PAM or systemd. (Yes, PAM also has sessions.) It has some sort of sessions for processes, but that is just something sharing the same name, not t
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lksgkjhsgkjh
10y ago
networkd doesn't know about wpa_supplicant, just as it doesn't know about openvpn, vpnc, ... If you want a network manager that does know about those and might give more helpful error messages if they fail, use for example Network