Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net)
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 3:36 AM
> From: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net)
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> It's also worth pointing out that these bitwise operations are *lightning*
> fast for computers to do. They're extremely efficient. CPUs have
> dedicated circuitry to do them.
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Thanks Greg for the detailed tutorial on what netmask is and does.
> Let's get back to Debian for a moment.
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> Debian doesn't use "iwd" (whatever that is) to configure network
> interfaces. Whatever created this file, it's not being used.
>
Oh.....
> Debian uses /etc/network/intefaces, which is a file documented by
> the man page interfaces(5). Any interface that's correctly defined in
> this file will be configured by it.
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I confirm that /etc/network/interfaces has been correctly configured because I am able to use a wired LAN connection to sudo apt upgrade and what not.
> If network-manager (NM) is installed, it will try to configure any
> interfaces that are *not* defined in /etc/network/interfaces. On some
> systems, this means NM is the primary means of configuring interfaces.
> On others, it may only do the wireless interfaces, while /e/n/i does
> the ethernet ones. On still other systems, NM might do nothing, or it
> might not even be installed at all.
>
Thanks again for the detailed explanation about what NM does. However according to the tutorials that I read on the internet, NM and wpasupplicant must be uninstalled prior to installing the package iwd.
> Debian also allows you to configure interfaces using some crazy systemd
> thing. This isn't done by any of the supported installation task sets.
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What did you mean by "installation task sets"? Did you mean the tasksel stage of the installation process where we get to choose to install a Gnome DE, KDE DE, LXQT DE etc?
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