unused wifi interfaces can't be optional
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Netplan |
Incomplete
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The following netplan configuration is not possible (where wlo1 is a wifi interface):
wifis:
wlo1:
optional: true
When trying to apply this, netplan complains that no access points are defined (which is the point of making it optional).
The consequence is that any system with a wifi interface that isn't being used is doomed to take 3 minutes on boot "waiting for network configuration", because the wifi interface can't be made optional, because it doesn't have an access point configured, which is why it needs to be optional in the first place.
This seems like an unnecessary frustration.
Netplan should allow wifi interfaces to be configured without access points and simply not configure a connection to an access point in that case.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in netplan: | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
importance: | Low → Medium |
I can see your frustration here, but I wonder: Why would you want to define the wifi interface at all if you're not going to configure/use it?
Would dropping the "wifis.wlo1" definition resolve your usecase?