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and subject line Re: intentional behaviour
has caused the Debian Bug report #894316,
regarding iw dev interface scan ssid <ssid> returns all SSIDs
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Package: iw
Version: 4.14-0.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have started using systemd-networkd/resolved and wpa_supplicant to configure
my wireless card automatically, and it works pretty well. However, given that
they don't present much of an interactive interface (wpa_cli doesn't really
count ;)), I thought I could use iw to figure out the details of a particular
SSID (so I would know how to configure it in wpa_supplicant). Assuming I know
the SSID, I expected that `iw dev wlp60s0 scan ssid Chiraag-VPN` would result
in just the details for Chiraag-VPN. However, it turns out that iw returns the
results for _all_ discovered networks, completely ignoring the `ssid` option.
This seems to conflict with the behavior documented in `iw dev wlp60s0 scan
help` and thus seems to be a bug. It also seems that this has been reported in
Fedora (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300205) with no
resolution. I'd be happy to help get to the bottom of this once and for all.
With the introduction of systemd-networkd, it seems that
systemd-networkd/resolved + wpa_supplicant + iw could make a great lightweight
network management solution, and solving this bug could really help make iw
actually useful for many of us.
Sincerely,
Chiraag
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.15.11-chiraag (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages iw depends on:
ii libc6 2.27-2
ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-2
ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.27-2
Versions of packages iw recommends:
ii crda 3.18-1
iw suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On 23 Apr 2022 20:57:43 +0200 Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is not a bug, it's intentional behaviour. The help text states:
Closing the bug then. Thanks for the clarification :-)
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