Quoting Russell Stuart (2020-07-13 00:16:01) > 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. Generally, IWD by design aims at being lightweight, which implies leaving high-level management to systemd-networkd (the default) or Network-Manager or connman or ifupdown or... The features you describe seems indeed not support by IWD currently: I suggest filing bugreports for IWD upstream developers. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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