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1I finally got around to installing Void GNU/Linux on my main
2computer. Rolling release, non-systemd, need I say more?
3
4As with all GNU/Linux distributions, wireless networks had
5me in a fix. If you can see this post, it means I've managed
6to get online. It turns out, `wpa_supplicant` was detecting the
7wrong interface by default (does it ever select the right
8one?). Let us fix that:
9
10```
11$ sudo rm -r /var/service/wpa_supplicant
12$ sudo killall dhcpcd
13```
14
15What is the right interface though?
16
17```
18$ iw dev
19 ...
20 Interface wlp2s0
21 ...
22```
23
24Aha! Let us run `wpa_supplicant` on that interface, as a
25background process:
26
27```
28$ sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp2s0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
29$ sudo dhcpcd -B wlp2s0
30$ ping google.com
31PING ...
32```
33
34Yay! Make those changes perpetual by enabling the service:
35
36```
37------------------------------------------------------
38# Add these to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
39OPTS="-B"
40WPA_INTERFACE="wlp2s0"
41------------------------------------------------------
42$ sudo ln -s /etc/sv/wpa_supplicant /var/service/
43$ sudo ln -s /etc/sv/dhcpcd /var/service/
44$ sudo sv restart wpa_supplicant
45$ sudo sv restart dhcpcd
46```