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Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points.

From HASM <hasm@example.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linus, alt.os.linux.networking, alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points.
Date 2019-07-19 14:32 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87tvbhd833.fsf@127.0.0.1> (permalink)
References <qgtaua$n4g$1@dont-email.me>

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> iwlist, which is used in Mageia, and in wicd, has a severe disability--
> namely if there are too many access points like more than 200 or so, it
> reports nothing.

Yes, one is not supposed to used iwlist anymore. Instead of, e,g,
  iwlist wlan0
use
  iw dev wlan0 scan

It should work for all cards that support nl80211, for older ones that
don't, you're stuck with iwlist and you may need to rebuild it with
this patch:
  http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/basicnet/wireless_tools.html

-- HASM

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iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-19 20:58 +0000
  Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-19 14:32 -0700
    Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-20 08:48 +0000
      Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-20 07:45 -0700
        Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-20 15:38 +0000
          Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-21 10:01 -0700
            Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-21 19:28 +0000
            Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-07-22 19:13 +0000
              Re: iwlist dies with toomany access points. HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2019-07-22 15:11 -0700

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