Comment 5 for bug 1971739

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

> Using IWD wouldn't obviate the use of wpa_supplicant, since the latter is used for more than Wi-Fi security. 802.1x authentication can be used for physical networks as well as VPNs and other things,

iwd includes a component for physical 802.1x authentication called 'ead' but the Debian (and Ubuntu) package isn't currently built with --enable-wired which has been reported to Debian as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956457