How to find out if my WLAN uses WPA or WPA2 security?

[Paul Menzel <paulepanter users sourceforge net>]

Dear NetworkManager folks,


following a discussion on the linux-wireless list [1], I want to find
out if my WLAN uses WPA(1) or WPA2 security. In his reply Larry Finger
suggests to use `iwlist scan` but I do want to avoid installing the
package containing this and wonder if NetworkManager exposes the same
information.

In the connection properties (Verbindungsinformationen) in `nm-applet`,
the security line tells me WPA/WPA2.

I also was not able to find this in the output of nmcli.

        $ LANG=C nmcli dev wifi list
        SSID                              BSSID               MODE             FREQ       RATE       SIGNAL   
SECURITY   ACTIVE  
        […]   
        'MYWLAN'                          XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX   Infrastructure   2457 MHz   54 MB/s    46       
WPA WPA2   yes
        […]

Does NetworkManager not know about this information because
wpa_supplicant is responsible for this?


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=137156919728549&w=2
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

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