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Using IWD instead of WPA SUPPLICANT for WIFI in Fedora

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IWD is an alternative for wpa_supplicant which can be used on Fedora Linux, this is how you replace IWD with wpa_supplicant on Fedora Linux.

Option 1 (side by side):

Make NetworkManager use IWD as the backend for Wireless communication, this lets you keep wpa_supplicant:

sudo dnf install -y iwd
printf "[device]\nwifi.backend=iwd\n" | sudo tee /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/iwd.conf
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

Option 2 (swap):

Remove the wpa_supplicant package and replace it with IWD:

sudo dnf swap -y wpa_supplicant iwd
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

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