pkill wpa_supplicant

[Elpiojo83]

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  • bug report
    Strange behaviour on Raspberry Pi 3 B, I need to call these commands after every reboot:

prevent wpa_supplicant from starting on boot

$ sudo systemctl mask wpa_supplicant.service

kill any running processes named wpa_supplicant

$ sudo pkill wpa_supplicant

Otherwise I couldn’t connect to the Pi. Which is a little uncomfortable, because if I need to call this commands I could also set the WiFi Credentials.

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[Elpiojo83]

OMG Sorry for the mess I didn’t see the prefilled text on my mobile.

[cjimti]

@Elpiojo83 no problem. This is not really a bug in this software. pkill should just stop any named process running. sudo systemctl mask wpa_supplicant.service hides the service from the startup process. There are a number of ways to prevent wpa_supplicant from starting, you can also just uninstall it, it all depends on the operating system you are running.