> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 3:36 AM > From: "Greg Wooledge" <g...@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) > > [.....} > > 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. > Thanks Greg for the detailed tutorial on what netmask is and does.
> Let's get back to Debian for a moment. > > 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. > 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. > 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?
