State of Wi-Fi on Linux

hugo@whynothugo.nl (Hugo Osvaldo Barrera) — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 03:30:41 -0300

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A few months ago, a pile of security issues were found in the kernel’s AF_ALG implementation, and it now seems to be on its way to deprecation.

iwd, the mature, working Wi-Fi implementation on Linux relies on AF_ALG extensively. It’s also somewhat unmaintained, so it’s unclear if it’ll be updated or simply die — its dependency is quite foundational, so it’s not a trivial fix either.

iwd is also really well positioned in terms of UIs, with a few pretty okay ones available (in TUI or GUI forms).

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State of Wi-Fi on Linux

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