[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#919619: NM 1.24.0 now has basic support for hidden networks with iwd backend

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

On Tue, 26 May 2020 13:10:27 +0200 Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se>
wrote:
> Just wanted to drop a comment about the iwd status in NM.
> NM has since 1.24.0, which is now in testing/unstable, basic
> support for connecting to a hidden network using the iwd backend.
> 
> There are still many minor bugs remaining in the NM iwd backend
> both for hidden and any other network. Examples that comes to mind:
> - Removing a connection in NM doesn't seem to propagate
>   to iwd known-network list.
> - NM and iwd sometimes gets out of sync for unknown reasons,
>   stopping iwd and restarting NetworkManager then browsing menues
>   to trigger dbus activation of iwd again can be used as a workaround.
> - nmcli errors out on trying to scan (for a hidden network!) even when
>   specifying 'hidden yes' on the command line. (Working method to
>   provision a hidden network includes using the "Connect to hidden
>   network..." menu entry in gnome-control-center Wi-Fi pane.)
> - and more...
> 
> Many minor workaroundable issues that needs more polish.
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem like anyone is working on improving
> the NM iwd backend since quite a while now (except for my basic hidden
> network contribution, which was a one-off for personal needs).

That sounds a bit like the iwd is only semi-maintained in NM which makes
me a bit uncomfortable tbh. What also concerns me a bit is, that ttbomk
we don't have an automatic fallback to iwd.
Say I switch the dependency to wpasupplicant | iwd, wpasupplicant is
removed. NM is not automatically using iwd without explicit
configuration? Is that correct?

Michael

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