Could not connect to wpa_supplicant: (nil) - re-trying

From: Steven Friedrich <freebsdlouisville_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 03:49:36 UTC
root@Slimline:~ $ wpa_cli
wpa_cli v2.10
Copyright (c) 2004-2022, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors

This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
See README for more details.



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Could not connect to wpa_supplicant: (nil) - re-trying

Why can't I connect to wpa_supplicant ?