Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net)

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Stella Ashburne wrote: 
> Based on ArchLinux's tutorial on using iwd to connect to a wireless network (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd), I managed to connect to my wireless router....or so I thought :(
> 
> Below are the relevant outputs:
> 
>                                  Station: wlan0                                *
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Settable  Property            Value
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             Scanning            no
>             State               connected
>             Connected network   Stella-Network
>             ConnectedBss        2b:ef:6a:20:ac:18

> username@hostname:~$ sudo apt update
> 
> Result: sudo apt update is unable to update the repositories specified in /etc/apt/sources.list. I tried to use Firefox to browse the internet to no avail.

You appear to have established a wifi connection, but not
assigned an IP address.

Try

sudo dhclient wlan0

and see if that gives you an IP and a default route, at which
point  apt update should work.

-dsr-