nmcli device wifi list only sees open networks
Running a scan with
nmcli device wifi list
is only showing me entries for routers that do not use any WEP/WPA encryption. I can see about 30 different routers from my phone's wifi scan. The only one that shows through nmcli has no WEP/WPA security. Is there any reason why this would happen?
networking wireless network-manager nmcli
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Running a scan with
nmcli device wifi list
is only showing me entries for routers that do not use any WEP/WPA encryption. I can see about 30 different routers from my phone's wifi scan. The only one that shows through nmcli has no WEP/WPA security. Is there any reason why this would happen?
networking wireless network-manager nmcli
edited Feb 13 at 2:00
Pablo Bianchi
2,96021535
asked Sep 27 '18 at 23:41
pcdangiopcdangio
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Do you see more access points if you runnmcli dev wifi rescanfirst?
– steeldriver
Sep 28 '18 at 0:00
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Running a scan with
nmcli device wifi list
is only showing me entries for routers that do not use any WEP/WPA encryption. I can see about 30 different routers from my phone's wifi scan. The only one that shows through nmcli has no WEP/WPA security. Is there any reason why this would happen?
networking wireless network-manager nmcli
edited Feb 13 at 2:00
Pablo Bianchi
2,96021535
asked Sep 27 '18 at 23:41
pcdangiopcdangio
11
Running a scan with
nmcli device wifi list
is only showing me entries for routers that do not use any WEP/WPA encryption. I can see about 30 different routers from my phone's wifi scan. The only one that shows through nmcli has no WEP/WPA security. Is there any reason why this would happen?
networking wireless network-manager nmcli
networking wireless network-manager nmcli
edited Feb 13 at 2:00
Pablo Bianchi
2,96021535
asked Sep 27 '18 at 23:41
pcdangiopcdangio
11
edited Feb 13 at 2:00
Pablo Bianchi
2,96021535
asked Sep 27 '18 at 23:41
pcdangiopcdangio
11
edited Feb 13 at 2:00
Pablo Bianchi
2,96021535
edited Feb 13 at 2:00
Pablo Bianchi
2,96021535
edited Feb 13 at 2:00
Pablo Bianchi
2,96021535
2,96021535
asked Sep 27 '18 at 23:41
pcdangiopcdangio
11
asked Sep 27 '18 at 23:41
pcdangiopcdangio
11
asked Sep 27 '18 at 23:41
pcdangiopcdangio
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Do you see more access points if you runnmcli dev wifi rescanfirst?
– steeldriver
Sep 28 '18 at 0:00
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Do you see more access points if you runnmcli dev wifi rescanfirst?
– steeldriver
Sep 28 '18 at 0:00
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Do you see more access points if you run
nmcli dev wifi rescan first?– steeldriver
Sep 28 '18 at 0:00
Do you see more access points if you run
nmcli dev wifi rescan first?– steeldriver
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As it turns out, if you are already connected to a router via ethernet when you do the wifi scan, the scan will only return the SSID of the router you are connected to via ethernet. It ignores all other SSIDs.
Interestingly, I used a second router as a bridge to a primary router. When connected to the second router via ethernet, nmcli dev wifi list returned the SSID of both the primary router and the bridging router.
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As it turns out, if you are already connected to a router via ethernet when you do the wifi scan, the scan will only return the SSID of the router you are connected to via ethernet. It ignores all other SSIDs.
Interestingly, I used a second router as a bridge to a primary router. When connected to the second router via ethernet, nmcli dev wifi list returned the SSID of both the primary router and the bridging router.
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As it turns out, if you are already connected to a router via ethernet when you do the wifi scan, the scan will only return the SSID of the router you are connected to via ethernet. It ignores all other SSIDs.
Interestingly, I used a second router as a bridge to a primary router. When connected to the second router via ethernet, nmcli dev wifi list returned the SSID of both the primary router and the bridging router.
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As it turns out, if you are already connected to a router via ethernet when you do the wifi scan, the scan will only return the SSID of the router you are connected to via ethernet. It ignores all other SSIDs.
Interestingly, I used a second router as a bridge to a primary router. When connected to the second router via ethernet, nmcli dev wifi list returned the SSID of both the primary router and the bridging router.
answered Sep 28 '18 at 20:43
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As it turns out, if you are already connected to a router via ethernet when you do the wifi scan, the scan will only return the SSID of the router you are connected to via ethernet. It ignores all other SSIDs.
Interestingly, I used a second router as a bridge to a primary router. When connected to the second router via ethernet, nmcli dev wifi list returned the SSID of both the primary router and the bridging router.
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Do you see more access points if you run
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