On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 13/05/2025 22:55, tomas wrote: > > > > sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scanning > > To avoid a tool that is claimed to be a deprecated one: > > sudo iw dev wlp2s0 scan > > > (With ifupdown I can help a bit, with the others there are > > far more knowledgeable folks than me around here). > > Tomas, since Paul has written that the issue was solved, I hope, the > following question related to ifupdown would not be considered as hijacking > the thread.
Fine with me :-) > I have noticed that deprecated wireless-tools have some kind of integration > with ifupdown while README.Debian from iw explicitly states that no helpers > are provided. Do you use in /etc/network/interfaces any configuration option > handled by namely wireless-tools or you have solely wpasupplicant > preferences to connect to access points? I only have needed wpa things in there (mainly wpa-ssid and wpa-psk; only once I needed wpa-bssid to make sure my laptop connects to the 2.4 GHz band, since the AP and the laptop would prefer the 5 GHz -- more is better, right? -- but that one is unreliable as hell). > > P.S. Since Paul mentioned XFCE and menu, I suspect that WiFi configuration > is handled by NetworkManager and the command to scan for available networks > is > > nmcli device wifi list > > and just "nmcli" for configuration overview. See? That's back on topic. So no hijack, after al ;-) Cheers -- t
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