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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Michael Biebl (2020-07-03 21:50:36)
> 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?

Then how about _not_ recommend iwd but just lower from depending on 
wpasupplicant to only recommending it.  Because that's what it is: 
Recommended for all except special situations.  For now...  Right?

 - Jonas

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