wpa_gui not finding wifi adapter while iwlist does successfully

dman

11/21/22, 2:00 AM

Using Ubuntu focal lts server edition. I manually installed Xorg.

I have a new install on my Dell XPS 7590. I want a light weight wifi manager so I installed wpa_supplicant and wpa_gui. I can run sudo iwlist wlp58s0 scan with no issues...it will show a list of wifi connection points successfully.

However, when I run sudo wpa_gui the GUI shows no network adapter. Any ideas on how to get wpa_gui running?

The wifi hardware is Wi-Fi 6 AX200 by Intel

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wpa-supplicant

20.04

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Jeff Isaacs

12/3/22, 3:05 PM

wpa_gui works by connecting to an instance of wpa_supplicant for a particular adapter. Let's see if this works -

1. Stop your currently running instance of wpa_supplicant with

$ sudo systemctl stop wpa_supplicant

2. Create a file wpa_supplicant.conf with the following

# /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1

3. Startup wpa_supplicant specifying your interface name and your conf file

$ sudo wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlp58s0

4. Startup wpa_gui as root

$ sudo wpa_gui

And you should see wlp58s0 as the interface. Automating this completely depends on the rest of your networking setup. You could make your own systemd service or modify the default one for wpa_supplicant, you could add some lines to /etc/network/interfaces, or you also achieve this with netplan.

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Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: wpa_gui not finding wifi adapter while iwlist does successfully

TH: wpa_gui ไม่พบอแด็ปเตอร์ wifi ในขณะที่ iwlist ทำสำเร็จ

RO: wpa_gui nu găsește adaptorul wifi în timp ce iwlist face cu succes

RU: wpa_gui не находит адаптер Wi-Fi, в то время как iwlist успешно

VI: wpa_gui không tìm thấy bộ điều hợp wifi trong khi iwlist thành công

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