Quick & Easy: Setting up iwd, a wpa_supplicant replacement on Alpine Linux

Install

• apk add iwd openresolv
• rc-service wpa_supplicant stop
• apk del wpa_supplicant
• rc-update add iwd boot

Configuring iwd

• sed -i 's/^#EnableNetworkConfiguration=True$/EnableNetworkConfiguration=True/' /etc/iwd/main.conf (enable iwd standalone)
• sed -i 's/^#NameResolvingService=resolvconf$/NameResolvingService=resolvconf/' /etc/iwd/main.conf (enable resolvconf)
• You can also just open /etc/iwd/main.conf and uncomment EnableNetworkConfiguration & NameResolvingService

Connecting to WiFi

• rc-service iwd start
• iwctl station wlan0 get-networks (list of available networks)
• iwctl station wlan0 connect mywifi (connect to network)

Other commands

• iwctl device wlan0 show (show device info)
• iwctl known-networks mywifi forget (remove a network)
• iwctl known-networks mywifi show (show a network)
• iwctl adapter phy0 show