[solved] wpa_cli stopped working

[jamapii]

Hello

a few months ago, wpa_cli would work just fine.

I was able to use the commands disable and select, and because they worked - they had an immediate effect as documented which showed up in iwconfig output, I had no need to try anything else.

Then it stopped. I can still supply any command to wpa_cli. For example, after "disable" a network, and then "list_networks", the network shows as disabled. Same for select, etc. But it has no effect on iwconfig output, and no effect on connectivity.

wpa_cli does not display any errors, or any unexpected output. It has the correct list of networks, it sets a preferred bssid (but it is not applied), of note: it cannot scan anything. The scan command can be submitted, but the scan results are always empty.

What makes wpa_cli fail silently like this?

[jamapii]

OK I think the problem was when I added "p2p" to the USE flag.

Then there would be some kind of an additional device like "p2p-wl5d16s2", and all wpa_cli commands would go to this one. Then all commands need a -p parameter. (I have only a single wifi interface)

Just add "p2p_disabled=1" to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

(Or find the right -p parameter and add it to a wrapper script, or set USE=-p2p)