#Arch linux svn client install#

If one desires to have more confusion, one has only to do all this on an ubuntu system, where the presence of Canonical’s netplan software adds another order of magnitude increase in complexity, and additional opportunities for foot target practice. IWD is a systemd service, as is wpa_supplicant, NetworkManager, and systemd-networkd, and it is possible to create a great deal of confusion when all of these bits are installed on the same system. The second change is that I have begun to use NetworkManager again, in conjunction with systemd-networkd. One of the changes is the substitution of IWD for wpa_supplicant as the party responsible for interacting with wireless radios, selecting one, authenticating to it, and making it available as a device.

But there are two different changes in my environment going on here, and while they are related I’m not claiming that one requires the other. When I downloaded and installed IWD, in ignorance, I managed to completely eliminate my wireless device and spent a good deal of time recovering. Maybe I’m not using it exactly right… I mean no disrespect to its authors, and am glad it exists but I went looking for something else. I detail there how I used a downloaded package called wpa_gui to do that, but while it is a good step forward, it is a bit clunky. One of the problems described in that post is that if one follows what it says, a side-effect is the loss of any very good “graphical” way to switch a laptop from one SSID to another.

#Arch linux svn client install#

I install Arch on this laptop, and initially followed what I had previously done in the earlier post: Switching to systemd-networkd. This is just to record a few facts about experiences over the last couple of days, subsequent to receiving and setting up a new frame.work laptop. Here at nearly the end of 2021 I have learned about IWD ( iNet Wireless Daemon), which is a replacement for wpa_supplicant. I always feel like I am a few years behind.