On Thu 17 Mar 2022 at 23:40:28 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 16 Mar 2022 at 22:40:07 (+0000), Brian wrote:
[...] > > OTOH, the Debian iwd package > > does not provide any integration with ifupdown > > Does iwd need ifupdown at all? It seems to be able to configure the > interface itself. No it doesn't and its DHCP inclusion plus the ability to use a static IP are nice touches. All-in-all I could live with that if it was my only requirement. However, ifupdown integrates with guessnet and I have /e/n/i set up for that. wpasupplicant is integrated with /e/n/i, so I have what is quite a neat and useful roaming setup. The scripts doing this are from Debian/Ubuntu developers, not from upstream. Perhas iwd will acquire something similar in the course of time. Regarding the installer: at present it provides an /e/n/i with wpa-* lines. Changing wpasupplicant to iwd in d-i would requir some work. No matter what the benefits of iwd are, I do not see that happening in the near future. wpasupplicant remians as useful as it always has been. > > and no one as get has > > published a GUI frontend for it. > > I get the impression that that would be seen as bloat. No matter how straightforward and easy you and I see iwctl to be, there are users who would benefit from such a frontend. One such is iwgtk, which is not in Debian. -- Brian.