Bug 32422

Summary: drakx-net needs to use iw instead of deprecated and malfunctioning iwlist
Product: Mageia Reporter: Marja Van Waes <marja11>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: doktor5000, fri
Version: CauldronKeywords: FOR_ERRATA9
Target Milestone: Mageia 10   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32130
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Source RPM: drakx-net-2.58-1.mga9 CVE:
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Bug Blocks: 17706    

Description Marja Van Waes 2023-10-22 13:05:16 CEST 
As stated in the summary, drakx-net needs to use iw instead of deprecated and malfunctioning iwlist. 

Here https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx-net/tree/lib/network/connection/wireless.pm#n397 we can currently see that network::monitor is required.

And here network::monitor uses iwlist: 
https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx-net/tree/lib/network/monitor.pm#n81

Note that the outputs of e.g.:

iwlist wlp5s0 scan 
and
iw dev wlp5s0 scan

are quite different.

For instance, the iw command doesn't show ESSIDS, like iwlist, but SSIDS.
Florian Hubold 2023-12-29 20:30:42 CET

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2023-12-29 21:41:15 CET 
This comes up now and then.
I suggest this to be entered into errata.

Common suggestion is to follow
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Switching_to_networkmanager.

CC: (none) => fri
Keywords: (none) => FOR_ERRATA9