wpasupplicant uninstall

[Nils Kassube]

sebastien wrote:
> I used to use a wireless connection but now I stopped using it,
> preferring wire to high frequence waves.
> 
> I intended to uninstall wpasupplicant.
> but synaptic tells me Ive to uninstall networkmanager & co.
> Then I have a doubt.
> 
> This is a newbee-kind of question. sorry. Can I uninstall it without
>  any damage for my system ?

I'd rather ask: _Why_ do you want to uninstall wpasupplicant?

If you don't want to have the radio operational, then switch off the 
WLAN hardware. That way you can even save some power (about 1W for one 
of my machines where I measured it some time ago). Uninstalling 
wpasupplicant doesn't switch off the radio. To wsitch off the radio you 
can either use a key combination like Fn+F10 (the actual key combination 
for your machine depends on the model) or there could be a hardware 
switch.

If you only have a very limited amount of disk space, then you could 
uninstall wpasupplicant and networkmanager etc. and use a manual network 
configuration. But I would only do it if there is a lack of disk space. 
It isn't worth the effort if you have enough disk space.


Nils