Ubuntu 22.10 Looking At Replacing WPA With IWD For Linux Wireless

[Vistaus]

WTF, has Canonical started to listen to feedback?
First Pipewire and now IWD.

Don't jinx it, next thing you know they'll replace them with CWD (Canonical Wireless Daemon) and Snapwire resp.

[sinepgib]

Don't jinx it, next thing you know they'll replace them with CWD (Canonical Wireless Daemon) and Snapwire resp.

No no. It's UWD (Unity Wireless Daemon, with convergence) and Mirwire.

[cmsigler]

I had some problems with IWD when I switched from wpa_supplicant, but it's been really stable for months now. I'm on Arch.

I tried to switch more than a year ago. Did not go well. Quickly reverted to wpa_supplicant. Finally tried again a couple of months ago. Biggest pain is occasionally having to restart iwd as I often suspend my laptop. Reasonably satisfied. I'm also on Arch

Edit: Clarifications

[Mangix]

The thing with iwd, last time I looked, is that it makes use of AF_CRYPTO sockets, which is really unfortunate. I wish they'd just do the crypto in userspace like any normal userspace program.

I consider it fortunate. Avoids heavy SSL dependencies under OpenWrt. See https://github.com/openwrt/packages/...b1b8f447fe2898 and https://github.com/openwrt/packages/...19cf8dbffb94e6

[kef71]

Wl

I tried to switch more than a year ago. Did not go well. Quickly reverted to wpa_supplicant. Finally tried again a couple of months ago. Biggest pain is occasionally having to restart iwd as I often suspend my laptop. Reasonably satisfied. I'm also on Arch

Edit: Clarifications

I never suspend my puter so I have not experienced any problem.... I shall suspend just for the fun of it and let you know.

[ptrwis]

Cool. It would also be nice to see the first routers with iwd.

[sinepgib]

Biggest pain is occasionally having to restart iwd as I often suspend my laptop.

Yeah, that happens to me occassionally.