Hi Dan > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 10:08 PM > From: "Dan Ritter" <d...@randomstring.org> > To: "Stella Ashburne" <rewe...@gmx.com> > Cc: "debian-user mailing list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 1 - > Connection status show OK but unable to surf the net) > > > You are using Debian, right? > > Yes I do. In fact Debian 11/Bullseye is my distro. > > Different distros do things differently. > Based on my experience with using ArchLinux's tutorials, I have been able to get all of my stuff done on Debian without problems. After all both are Linux distros. It's not like one of them belongs to *BSD family while the other belongs to Linux family. > > > I have no experience using 'iwd', so what I mean is that I > cannot spot a problem in your config. > Let's have a look at ArchLinux's wiki's example (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd) which I reproduce here:
Setting static IP address in network configuration Add the following section to /var/lib/iwd/network.type file. For example: /var/lib/iwd/spaceship.psk [IPv4] Address=192.168.1.10 Netmask=255.255.255.0 Gateway=192.168.1.1 Broadcast=192.168.1.255 DNS=192.168.1.1 In the above example the broadcast IP is 192.168.1.255. Question: Does the fourth octet have to be 255? > > > then it should assign > > > 192.168.0.30.115 to wlan0 and > > > > > > ip addr show > > > > > > should show that assignation. Does it? > > > > > No, it doesn't. > > Then iwd is not setting up your interface, or your config is > wrong. > Oh dear! This is bad news :(
