As you may know, I really, really, dislike Network
Manager. Luckily, there's now a
superior replacement for wpa_supplicant, namely iwd. iwd also
has builtin configuration and command line interface, giving me all I
want:
- Simple architecture
- Understandable, copy and paste-able text file based configuration that lives in standard location
- Stable, always works
iwd configuration
Configuration for all your networks are stored in:
/var/lib/iwd
There's one configuration file per network/access point. The suffix
indicates the kind of security used, e.g: .psk files are for
networks using a preshared key and .open files are for access points
not requiring any authentication.
Setting static IP
First tell iwd to attempt assigning IP, netmask and so on:
# vim /etc/iwd/main.conf
[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true
ℹ️ Note, the main.conf cannot be a symlink, it must be a regular
file.
Then, add this to your .psk file:
# vim /var/lib/iwd/foo.psk
[IPv4]
Address=192.168.1.18
Netmask=255.255.255.0
Gateway=192.168.1.1
Broadcast=192.168.1.255
DNS=192.168.1.1
