On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 14:57 -0400, Bruno Dantas wrote: > > Does it go away if you wait long enough for the "last seen" to go above > > 30 seconds (30000ms)? You should use "iw wlan0 scan dump" (no need for > > sudo, and don't scan again) to check. > > > > Because if not, then there's a bug in the references, and the entry is > > just being kept alive by ... something. Did you previously connect to > > it? Does it also happen if you never connect? Then I guess we'll need to > > know what the kernel version is too. :) > > Yes, it goes way if I wait 30 seconds. Whether I had connected to the > hotspot or not makes no difference. Kernel version is 5.4.3. So at least it's not completely stuck. > I thought discovering *currently-available* hotspots would be a common > need. I'm a bit surprised that getting this information is tricky. That's why 'flush' exists :) > Like I said, reloading the wireless interface's kernel module does the > trick. Obviously. But still, now I'm wondering if there's a bug? But then again, I think we use this a lot in the hwsim tests and rely on it for a quick succession of tests to not find previous APs, and "scan_for_auth" seems to be a fairly direct test for this as well? Hmm. Not sure. What driver are you using? johannes
