WiFi mess - Multiple services trying to control wifi?

[loderatum]

Hello, new Gentoo user here. I installed with systemd.

My goal is to have a stable WiFi connection that I can control from the XFCE gui. I have been using WPA supplicant from the command line to start the WiFi. I later installed networkmanager.

My WiFi was never very stable, and there may have been multiple services trying to control it from the start. I may have made it worse by installing networkmanager.

I guess I need to know a good way to determine all the services that might be trying to control the wifi, and know which ones I should disable. Or whether that's even my problem...

My symptom is repeated messages like this on the console, associated with temporary loss of WiFi connectivity: https://0x0.st/8XIF.txt

Here are my systemctl services: https://0x0.st/8XI7.txt

Here is my make.conf: http://0x0.st/8XIh.bin

Please suggest what other commands to run to help troubleshoot. thank you!

[Banana]

Maybe it is just this https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant#Setup_for_NetworkManager, since both do work together.

But make sure you have read the notice at the start of the page from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager
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[NeddySeagoon]

loderatum,

Your pastebin is normal wifi startup.
Look for

[loderatum]

banana, thank you, I had missed wpa_gui. I will use that to control the WiFi from now on.

NeddySeagoon, thanks, that sheds some light on these messages.

It's definitely dropping the connection while I'm in the middle of an interactive SSH session, so it won't be inactivity. It looks like when this happens I am getting both reason=4 and reason=2. Here are the messages I captured: http://0x0.st/8X7E.txt

[NeddySeagoon]

loderatum,

There is a list of reason codes here.
2 is Authentication no longer valid.

Is your system trying to change Access Points?
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[loderatum]

Well, I removed networkmanager and the frequent disconnects went away, so I believe there was some sort of conflict happening.

Now I know about wpa_gui and the reason codes, so thank you everyone!