Iwd

iwd (iNet Wireless Daemon) is Article description::an up-and-coming wireless daemon for Linux. It is written by Intel and aims to replace wpa_supplicant.

Emerge
Install package:

Configuration
Be sure to choose the corresponding setup.

Iwd does not yet work with netifrc yet, see. Therefore any symbolic links to for the wireless interfaces need to be removed.

Setup for dhcpcd as network manager
Add the iwd daemon and the DHCP daemon to the default runlevel and start them up:

Connecting to an access point
can be used to control iwd. It supports both a command line interface and an interactive mode. A complete command line would be to see what adapters you might be able to use:

An interactive sequence of commands can be used to connect to a WiFi network access point. First check the status of the WiFi network interface, set it in scanning mode if needed, and then obtain the list of WiFi access points. Finally connect to the access point.