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Provide iwd as an alternative for wpa_supplicant
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Description

iwd has been good enough for a long time we still need to check whether it has feature parity with wpa_supplicant

Due to the issues of v2.10 of wpa_supplicant we'll start providing iwd as an opt-in replacement for it.

To enable iwd:

  • Package iwd
  • Enable support for iwd in NetworkManager by passing iwd=true to meson configure.
  • Users will have to manually create /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf with
[device]
wifi.backend=iwd

and enable the iwd service to use iwd in place of wpa_supplicant.

We could configure iwd to be enabled automatically in NetworkManager if it is installed.

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