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Author: tito
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Simple or minimal wifi access from a laptop.
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:03:13 +0100
tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:33:50 -0500
> Hendrik Boom via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble with connman in Devuan chimaera and need a replacement.
> >
> > I am setting my laptop up as an authoritative stopgap DNS server while my
> > regular server is dead.
> > tinydns needs to use port 53.
> >
> > connman, in a chronic fit of exuberance, already monopolizes port 53 so
> > that it can take over domain name lookups. (there's no need for it to do
> > this,but it does it anyway. It just needs to set up a wifi connwction. It
> > doesn't need to do domain name lookup or definition.)
> >
> > So -- what other tools are there to connect to wi-fi that don't need to
> > mess with port 53?
> > Fancy graphical interfaces are OK, so are low-level CLI ones, or even
> > hand-editing kernel configuration files, if that's what it tales.
> >
> > I do ask that there is adequate documentation somewhere to explain how to
> > try them out. I may well have to install and uninstall them without
> > leaving residues that interfere with port 53. Installing and purging in
> > aptitude would probably do the trick. But leaving just a list of SSID's
> > and passwords would be fine.
> >
> > -- hendrik
>
> hi,
> https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager/iwd
>
> iwd - Man Page
>
> Internet wireless daemon
>
> Daemon for managing Wireless devices on Linux.
>
> The iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) project aims to provide a comprehensive
> Wi-Fi connectivity solution for Linux based devices.
>
> I used as network-manager backend and it worked far better than
> wpa-supplicant, but it can be used also standalone.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ciao,
> Tito


or simple /etc/network/interfaces

# Wifi network interface
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf


and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev

network={
    ssid="home-ssid-name"
    psk="secret-password"
}


The network part is generated by:
wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase]

wpa_passphrase  test provaprova
network={
        ssid="test"
        #psk="provaprova"
        psk=125d96d97798b554315075bc7eb6e7f10632b09010b86e4e7407abc9725ba364
}


or this could all be added to /etc/network/interfaces

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
       wpa-ssid test
        wpa-psk 125d96d97798b554315075bc7eb6e7f10632b09010b86e4e7407abc9725ba364


Ciao,
Tito