iwd(8)

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✨ iwd — Internet Wireless Daemon ✨

okay so picture this: it's iwd(8), the manual page, straight out of Linux Connectivity, and she's here to make your Wi-Fi werk 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

iwd [options ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie. It's a daemon for managing Wireless devices on Linux. That's the whole vibe, but let me give you the lore ✨

The iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) project is out here trying to give Linux-based devices a full-on, comprehensive Wi-Fi connectivity solution. The core goal? Optimize resource utilization — like, storage, runtime memory, and link-time costs. All of them. Every last byte 💀

And the way they do it is genuinely iconic: no external libraries. None. It's not depending on any of them, and instead it uses features provided by the Linux Kernel to the maximum extent possible. The result is a self-contained environment that only depends on the Linux Kernel and the runtime C library. self-sufficient queen behavior, no cap 👑

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --version, -v — show the version number and exit, that's it, that's the whole task 🌸
  • --help, -h — show the help message and exit. when u just need a little guidance 🫶

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • $STATE_DIRECTORY — used for network configuration files. peep iwd.network for the deets 📁
  • $CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY — used for daemon configuration settings. only the file main.conf is currently read from this directory, so don't go looking for anything else in there 🙈 see iwd.config for details.
  • see iwd.debug for further environment variables for debugging — yes, there are more, iykyk 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

iwd.config(5), iwd.network(5), iwd.debug(7), iwctl(1), iwmon(1), hwsim(1), ead(8), systemd.exec(5)

<http://iwd.wiki.kernel.org>

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>, Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>, Tim Kourt <tim.a.kourt@linux.intel.com>, James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>

2013-2019 Intel Corporation

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 no gatekeeping, every flag and file accounted for.

🌸 mwah 🌸 — this was iwd(8) from Linux Connectivity, dated 22 September 2019, and the page name goes out to iwd herself. periodt 💅✨

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