On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:35:02 BST Michael wrote: > For clarity: > > The iwlwifi is a kernel driver for Intel wireless chips. > > The net-wireless/iw software can be used to manage the wireless association > with an AP if the latter has been configured to offer connections with the > deprecated and insecure WEP, or no encryption. > > The net-wireless/wpa_supplicant software can be used to manage the > negotiation for a wireless connection with an AP when this has encryption > enabled (WPA, WPA-2, WPA-3).
Yes, I was aware of those. > The net-wireless/iwd is a more modern software developed by Intel to replace > wpa_supplicant. In addition it will also create wireless interfaces as it > needs to and manage these, as opposed to leaving this function to udev. > Essentially iwd takes over the management of wireless interfaces and their > encrypted communication with an AP in a standalone fashion. I haven't > tried this yet to find out how it behaves, but it is rumoured to be more > polished than wpa_supplicant and can work without netifrc scripts or > dhcpcd. That's a better explanation than I've seen before - thanks! > There are GUI front-ends for the above to suit various desktop and user > preferences, some more polished than others. Hm. I haven't found one for iwd yet... -- Regards, Peter.
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