On Mon Apr 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM CEST, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > su 6.4.2025 klo 22.09 Diederik de Haas (didi.deb...@cknow.org) kirjoitti: >> So it seems like a good idea to have ``openresolv`` as first suggestion. >> That is has the same upstream maintainer/developer may be useful too. > > Doable, and same upstream as the first choice makes sense.
Excellent :-)
>> While researching all this, I also found commit 11bbf768f579
>> ("Add wpasupplicant to Recommends for dhcpcd-base for SSID profiles")
>> (it's now on ``dhcpcd``)
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure what "SSID profiles" are, but if it is meant to
>> store credentials for multiple wireless networks, that's a functionality
>> that the ``iwd`` package/program also supports.
>> If I 'guessed' "SSID profiles" correctly, maybe add ``iwd`` as an
>> alternative Recommends?
>
> See the man page. If connecting via a wireless device, dhcpcd can
> select which credentials it will pass wpasupplicant. Kinda like the
> ifupdown wpa-ssid and wpa-psk options.
I didn't manage to find the relevant option in the manpages I read, but
I did find https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpcd#10-wpa_supplicant
which indicates a direct connection to wpa_supplicant and not some
generic wireless daemon, thus iwd doesn't seem relevant here.
Cheers,
Diederik
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