Why would a network interface be detected by nmcli and ip, but not by iw?

Running ip link I get the output 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: wlp6s0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 28:b2:bd:97:d6:50 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: wlxd0374514b161: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000 link/ether d0:37:45:14:b1:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Similarly, ls /sys/class/net lists lo wlp6s0 wlxd0374514b161. However, iw dev prints out a single interface: phy#0 Interface wlp6s0 ifindex 2 wdev 0x1 addr 28:b2:bd:97:d6:50 type managed txpower 0.00 dBm Similarly, nmcli dev gives DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION wlxd0374514b161 wifi connected awesomeConnection lo loopback unmanaged -- wlp6s0 wifi unmanaged -- I thought iw dev was also supposed to print all available network interfaces? Is this not the case? Why is one interface not shown in the output of iw dev? Here, wlp6s0 is the internal network adapter of my laptop, which is disabled because faulty, while wlxd0374514b161 is a (working...?) USB network adapter. About said USB lsusb tells me Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter while the drivers of the two network interfaces are $ DEV=wlxd0374514b161 $ readlink -f /sys/class/net/$DEV/device/driver /sys/bus/usb/drivers/r8188eu $ readlink -f /sys/class/net/wlp6s0/device/driver /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwlwifi I add this information because, considering this question on superuser , and https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/386667/iw-not-finding-usb-wifi-dongle, it might be relevant to the issue.