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Re:Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by fsh on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:42AM (#21512035)
What does systemd have to do with your wifi? Handling that is the distro's job.
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Re:Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by rkangel on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:47AM (#21514977)
Systemd is part of the distro, as is the kernel and anything else you end up with on your machine after installation.
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Re:Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by shakna on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:54AM (#21512328)
systemd-networkd handles network configuration.

For WiFi, you still need WPA supplicant or similar, but you'll have those two things playing together.

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Re:Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by fsh on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:50AM (#21513617)
systemd-networkd is completely optional. In raspbian it is disabled by default and a very simple unit-file that calls ifup/ifdown is used. For wifi you obviously have to configure wpa-supplicant or use NetworkManager.
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Re:Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by shakna on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:41AM (#21513970)
You asked what systemd had to do with WiFi. There are other options, but the parent wanted systemd.
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Re:Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by bonzini on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:08AM (#21512402)
Just install ConnMan instead.
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