Ubuntu Is Looking At Offering Better WiFi Support By Using Intel's IWD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Is Looking At Offering Better WiFi Support By Using Intel's IWD

Ubuntu developers are looking at using Intel IWD as the iNET wireless daemon to potentially replace WPA_Supplicant for offering a better WiFi experience...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Looking-At-IWD

[ThoreauHD]

Sounds like a perfect job for you, Michael. You could graph the hell out of those benchmarks.

[doublez13]

WHAT?? They're not going to write their own WIFI stack?

[alvinde]

Since our honorary editor is asleep on the job again.. Michael you have IWD and WPA_Supplicant back to front here -

Ubuntu hasn't decided for sure to replace IWD with WPA_Supplicant at this time

[loganj]

does iwd now allow to select a specific BSSID?
i thought it has a lot missing features

[starshipeleven]

does iwd now allow to select a specific BSSID?

Not sure what you mean with that.
I've been using it for the last 6 months or so as a backend for NetworkManager and it's fine. Faster to detect/connect/reconnect to wifi.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling distro, so latest versions of everything)

[starshipeleven]

WHAT?? They're not going to write their own WIFI stack?

Yeah, 2020 is weird. Canonical is acting very strange.

[loganj]

starshipeleven i have a router with same name for the network for both 5gh and 2ghz. with IWD i was unable to connect to a specific network (2/5 ghz). so it always connected to 2ghz due to strong signal i think.

[jo-erlend]

WHAT?? They're not going to write their own WIFI stack?

I'm curious; did writing that make you feel like you had your bias confirmed or what was the point? I'm asking a serious question, because I see people doing this all the time, in many different contexts, and I really don't understand why they do it.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Ubuntu hasn't decided for sure to replace WPA_Supplicant with IWD at this time

It is a typo! It was the inverse!