disable_wpa_supplicant
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If you don't use wifi connection, you can disable wpa_supplicant.
Disable NetworkManager's use of wpa_supplicant to manage wifi clients:
nmcli radio wifi off
After this, NetworkManager won't try to manage wifi devices as clients. Now you can just disable/stop the wpa_supplicant service without worrying that it will start automatically:
systemctl disable wpa_supplicant
systemctl stop wpa_supplicant
Note that NM might still be managing an active network interface for a wifi connection. To kill this, just do nmcli c to view the interfaces, and then:
nmcli c d wlan0
… for a wifi interface named wlan0.
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