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Error: spawn nmcli ENOENT (Linux/Raspberry Pi)

See original GitHub issue

Cannot scan (and possible also connect) for WiFi networks on Linux (Raspberry Pi)

Expected Behavior

Returning a list of networks wen calling wifi.scan()

Current Behavior

The following error emerges:

Error: spawn nmcli ENOENT at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:269:19) at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:465:16) at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) { errno: -2, code: 'ENOENT', syscall: 'spawn nmcli', path: 'nmcli', spawnargs: [ '--terse', '--fields', 'active,ssid,bssid,mode,chan,freq,signal,security,wpa-flags,rsn-flags', 'device', 'wifi', 'list', 'ifname', 'wlan0' ], cmd: 'nmcli --terse --fields active,ssid,bssid,mode,chan,freq,signal,security,wpa-flags,rsn-flags device wifi list ifname wlan0' }

Affected features

node API
cli

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Run wifi.scan() on raspberry pi in node.js project

Your Environment

Raspberry Pi - Node 14

OS: Rasbian
node-wifi version ^2.0.15
wifi card: (on linux, use command lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet')

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:15 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

HighDeckcommented, Mar 1, 2022

Same behavior on Raspberry pi / Debian 11.6. Any update on this ?

0reactions

fostemancommented, Sep 1, 2022

Apparently, I have been lacking network-manager installed since I’m running on Armbian Lite

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