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860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

Posts: 492

NetworkManager with iwd forgets Wi-Fi password after reboot

Hi,

I recently switched my Arch Linux setup from wpa_supplicant to iwd as the NetworkManager Wi-Fi backend.

Here’s what I did:
1. Disabled and removed

wpa_supplicant

2. Installed

iwd

and added

[device]
wifi.backend=iwd

3. Deleted all existing Wi-Fi connections
4. Created new ones via NetworkManager
5. Following the iwd documentation (Converting network profiles), I removed the

permissions=

line from the new connection profiles

Everything works fine — except now, after every reboot, NetworkManager asks for the Wi-Fi password again.
It looks like the password isn’t being stored persistently anywhere.

Has anyone else run into this issue?
How can I make NetworkManager with iwd remember the Wi-Fi password across reboots?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 69,242

Re: NetworkManager with iwd forgets Wi-Fi password after reboot

repeat (3) and (4), skip (5) - that'd be an alternative to 3/4 and see whether the PSK is remembered. NM manages this and it should™ not relate to the backend at all.

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