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Bug #3367

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ifconfig wlan0 lscan does not exists

Added by mneumann 9 months ago. Updated 5 months ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Networking
Target version:
6.6
Start date:
04/18/2024
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Description

The man page for ifconfig states that "lscan" is "a variant of scan that displays long SSIDs". But it does not exist:

$ ifconfig wlan0 lscan
    ifconfig: lscan: bad value

What works is:

$ ifconfig wlan0 list lscan

AFAIK, FreeBSD defaults to showing long SSIDs, which IMHO is more intuitive and useful.

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Updated by daftaupe 5 months ago

  • Category set to Networking

So should we update the manual page first ? So that lscan appears as a suboption of the list command ?
Or should we try to change the behaviour of the scan command ?

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Updated by mneumann 5 months ago

daftaupe wrote in #note-1:

So should we update the manual page first ? So that lscan appears as a suboption of the list command ?
Or should we try to change the behaviour of the scan command ?

I think it'd make more sense to fix this properly. FreeBSD has

ifconfig wlan0 list scan

and with -v flag, it enables display of long SSIDs:

ifconfig wlan0 list scan -v

This is IMHO more intuitive.

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