On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 22:12 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I don't run either systemd or NetworkManager, and I'm not currently > interested in changing either of those things, but I am interested in > trying out an alternative to wpa_supplicant. Is there an appropriate > similar procedure for such an environment, or would I have to > experiment and play around trying to get things to work? I don't use network manager, so I'm in a similar position. From what I can see iwd lacks two features of wpa_supplicant. Firstly, there doesn't seem to be a way to attach iwd to a particular wireless interface. Iwctl doesn't provide one, and I don't see any other way to tell it. Most people have just one wireless interface so it may not be a huge issue but it is an impedance miss-match with things like ifupdown that are focused on interfaces. Maybe that's the problem with network manager too. Secondly, it doesn't support wpa_supplicant's priorities. I use them a fair bit. For example, I tell wpa_supplicant to favour my phone WiFi hotspot over others, so if I have a connectivity issue I can just turn it on. That said, I guess I could just use iwctl to manually connect to the phone.
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