Re: Kernel API to get wireless connection info

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 02:19:27PM +0000, Salil Wadnerkar wrote:
>> Does anyone know which `ieee80211` commands I need to get the wireless
>> connection info like SSID name, type (WPA, etc), and signal strength?
>> `ieee80211_ioctl` (https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-9.0/ieee80211_ioctl.9)
>> looks promising, but I cannot find the IOCTL commands that will get the
>> required info.
>
> You mean like the output of "ifconfig $IF list scan" ?
> That is implemented by the list_scan function in src/sbin/ifconfig/ieee80211.c.

Does that mean that wlanctl(8) is on the way out?

Regards,

- Håvard