Quoting Matthieu Baerts (2025-02-09 23:49:37) > 9 Feb 2025 22:15:50 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>: > > Quoting Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) (2025-02-09 19:56:27) > >> iwd doesn't provide all the same features as the ones from > >> wpa_supplicant, especially everything not related to the Wireless world, > >> e.g. Ethernet authentication (bug#956457), or some more specific > >> features like MACsec. > >> > >> wpa_supplicant and iwd can then be used in parallel, for different > >> purposes. > > > > When you install only the iwd package, then you can also install the > > wpasupplicant package, and carefully configure them to not step on each > > others' toes. > > > > What the package network-manager-iwd offers is relieving the user of > > manual configuration: It is ensured that iwd works together with > > network-manager, but since network-manager recommends wpasupplicant, > > it is not adequate to provide a network-manager config snippet, because > > wpasupplicant will still be installed and will in its default > > configuration interfere with the default configuration of iwd. > > I see, but in fact, thanks to the config file provided by this package, > at the next reboot, NM will use iwd and leave wpasupplicant alone. > So no conflicts. > > iwd is just one WiFi backend that is loaded after having read the config. > NM will not try to use both at the same time.
I might be wrong, but my understanding (and as I recall my personal experience as well) is not a problem of which helper tool network-manager interacts with, but instead that wpasupplicant by default loads itself as a daemon which somehow (listening to same socket, I guess) causes iwd to fail to load or operate reliably. See https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager/iwd for related info. > > Thanks for the proposal, but I disagree with this one. > > (I think there is a small mixed-up in the changelog file, because it is > saying the opposite, but that's a detail :) ) What mixup, more specifically? I like perfect changelogs. :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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