On Thu 30 Sep 2021 at 15:55:54 (+0200), Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:22 PM > > From: "David Wright" <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
> > > [Security] > > > PreSharedKey=a long string of alphanumeric characters > > > Passphrase=aquickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog > > > > I take it that you edited in the passphrase, and iwd wrote > > the PreSharedKey into the file itself? > > > Yes, before I submitted my post to lists.debian.org, I changed my passphrase > to aquickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog I expected that. I was only confirming that you didn't write the PSK, but only the passphrase. iwd then fills it in. Speaking of which, I'm not sure what is meant (in the wiki) by "connect" in "The pre-shared key will be appended to the file at the first connect". Does this mean when one commands iwctl, or when the SSID is seen. > > > [IPv4] > > > Address=192.168.30.115 > > > Netmask=255.255.255.0 > > > Gateway=192.168.30.1 > > > Broadcast=192.168.30.255 > > > DNS=8.8.8.8 > > > > Where did you get the number 115 from? > > > My dear David, I plucked it out of thin air. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa?? I > could have just typed 130 instead of 115..... In which case, is the 30 made up. We just don't know whether the PC is on the same network as the router yet. And I don't have experience of setting up a static network without the router's cooperation on choosing addresses. > > It's claimed that iwd can do DHCP itself. For this, you'd drop > > the [IPv4] paragraph above, and instead put > > > > [General] > > EnableNetworkConfiguration=true > > into /etc/iwd/main.conf (create if necessary). > > > Yes, I think ArchLinux's wiki mentions that starting with iwd's version 0.9, > the latter can do DHCP... > > > > Please note that I have disabled IPv6 by adding the line > > > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet" > > > > > > to /etc/default/grub > > > > It's claimed that iwd only configures IPv6 if you have > > > > [Network] > > EnableIPv6=true > > > > in /etc/iwd/main.conf. > > > That's absolutely correct. In fact according to the same ArchLinux's wiki, > with iwd, support for IPv6 is disabled by default. > Cheers, David.
