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Wpa supplicant/Setup for dhcpcd as network manager

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Emerge wpa_supplicant (Version >=2.6-r2 is needed in order to get the CONFIG_MATCH_IFACE option added in April 2017.)

root #emerge --ask net-wireless/wpa_supplicant

complete its conf.d file with the -M option

FILE /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant_args="-B -M -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"

and run it as a service:

root #rc-update add wpa_supplicant default
root #/etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start