Ubuntu 22.10 Looking At Replacing WPA With IWD For Linux Wireless

[sinepgib]

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

Yeah, that happens to me occassionally.

[ptrwis]

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

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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]

I think it's more likely that's just to uphold their promise of having zero dependencies. But every OS already has to ship OpenSSL anyway, it's not like we can live without it, since that's the crypto library pretty much all other software depends on, so there's little value in not depending on anything in this case.

Not every OS. Embedded can very well do without if none of the userspace programs use it. Besides, daemons should strive for efficiency, if crypto sockets are (or ever become) able to offload crypto operations to cards, then a lot of work and copying disappears.

[kef71]

Whenever i tried IWD i've had more weird connection problems than before...

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.

[loganj]

so do they allow 5ghz softAP now?