MX Linux Forum

The iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) project aims to provide a comprehensive Wi-Fi connectivity solution for Linux based devices. The core goal of the project is to optimize resource utilization: storage, runtime memory and link-time costs. This is accomplished by not depending on any external libraries and utilises features provided by the Linux Kernel to the maximum extent possible. The result is a self-contained environment that only depends on the Linux Kernel and the runtime C library.

https://iwd.wiki.kernel.org/

The iwd package can be used as a drop-in replacement for wpa_supplicant, just create a file at /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf with this content: Then reboot, iwd should be running instead of wpa_supplicant.

It is also possible to run iwd with systemd-networkd or even as a standalone wirlesss networking solution for the versions in Debian testing/unstable, see my fdn thread for more on this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=144729

Be nice if it would work as a replacement for the never to be sufficiently damned connman in antiX 19.

The version in Debian testing/unstable can be used as a complete replacement for both ConnMan & NetworkManager, I've backported it to Debian stable & MX-19:

https://software.opensuse.org//download ... ackage=iwd

See my Debian forums thread for a quick how-to.

The version in Debian stable can be used as a backend for ConnMan (instead of wpa_supplicant) but unfortunately the only guide I can find uses systemd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co ... supplicant

Perhaps somebody could look at that and make it work under sysvinit or runit.

Would it be possible to backport this to MX-18.3?

Currently I am holding off on MX-19 until the first point release, Xfce 4.14 is too new and buggy for me.

jeffreyC wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:59 pm Would it be possible to backport this to MX-18.3?

It's not trivial for me, a backported debhelper version is required and I don't use Debian stretch any more so I couldn't test the packages anyway.

Perhaps if you open a request thread the MX devs could backport it, I'm sure they've already solved the debhelper-compat issue.

We already have debhelper 12 as standard in MX 17/18 to make it easier to backport packages from upstream, but very few packages so far in upstream Debian actually require a newer debhelper for a successful build. Usually, you can change to
in debian/control, then restore the debian/compat file with the contents to revert back to the standard Stretch debhelper 10. Let me see if it works with iwd.

Yes, no problem building both on vanilla Buster and Stretch chroots with debhelper 10, using pbuilder. Jessie builds fail, even with a backported debhelper 10, because its rst2man package is too old. Let's see if a backported rst2man helps.