Intel's IWD 1.25 Adds Support For Encrypting Network Credentials, Other Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's IWD 1.25 Adds Support For Encrypting Network Credentials, Other Improvements

Last week a new version of Intel's IWD open-source wireless daemon was published with a few improvements and new features for this increasingly used alternative to WPA_Supplicant on Linux systems...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-IWD-1.25

[chromer]

Is it time to replace wpa_supplicant with IWD ?

[evil_core]

Is it time to replace wpa_supplicant with IWD ?

Many people uses that with NetworkManager from years with success (but still there are probably some enterprise setups not supported. And IWD refues to support WEP for years [because insecure], but hopefully it changed)

Switching between is as simple as writing/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf

[FONT=monospace][device]
wifi.backend=iwd
#wifi.backend=wpa_supplicant[/FONT]

Later you need to reboot or 'systemctl daemon-reload; systemctl restart NetworkManager'

[CTTY]

Is it time to replace wpa_supplicant with IWD ?

Yes, the time was long ago.
I use iwd since 4.1x and back then there were issues with 8021x networks before kernel 4.19, but since then I had no problems (after the initial setup).

[cmsigler]

Is it time to replace wpa_supplicant with IWD ?

I did an install (Arch on a new laptop a year ago. I tried everything and read everything to get iwd to work. It was flaky. It worked on boot-up, then would stop working, then seemed to work, etc.

Just last week I tried again. It Just Worked(TM) fine. I even converted my old laptop while I was at it, no more wpa_supplicant, and going systemd-resolved and -timesyncd while I was at it. Everything seems to be working correctly, and very simple to my experience (YMMV?...)

Clemmitt

[jprestwo]

Wiki for profile encryption is up: https://iwd.wiki.kernel.org/profile_encryption