Is iwctl part of default bullseye installations? Maybe networkd.service can be used with systemd this I haven't tried since I'm using ethernet but do have wi-fi capability. I could try these avenues and see if they're open.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: > Harald Dunkel wrote: > > how comes ifupdown is dropped at upgrade time to bullseye, leaving the > > (headless) system without network connection while the upgrade is not > > completed yet, and breaking network on the next reboot? > > This has not yet happened to me in nine or ten upgrades to > bullseye; all but two of them depended on > /etc/network/interfaces and nothing weird happened regarding > ifupdown. > > -dsr- > >