wireless_scanning should use NetworkManager and not iwconfig/iwlist

Bug #900370 reported by Brendan Donegan
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Brendan Donegan

Bug Description

The wireless_scanning test uses the iwconfig and iwlist tools to scan for SSIDs. The kernel interfaces that these tools use are about to be deprecated (they may break in Precise at some point) and we would need to change the test to use the new interfaces used by 'iw'. A better solution is to use the 'nmcli dev list' command to spit out the SSIDs. The tool is just an interface to NetworkManager itself, and as the only supported network management tool in Ubuntu it is guaranteed to continue working indefinitely.

I wouldn't consider this a wishlist item, as failing to act on it would eventually break our test.

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Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) wrote :

Setting at medium now, to become High if we get into the situation where it's broken before we got a chance to deal with it.

Changed in checkbox:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Daniel Manrique (roadmr)
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milestone: none → 0.14
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Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) wrote :

Testing this fix from my PPA to see how it works

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status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)
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status: In Progress → Fix Released
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