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Show encryption used by WiFi stations connected to my hotspot

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I'm hosting a hotspot from my PC, which has a wired internet connection and a wifi adapter. The OS is Fedora 40, using Network Manager and wpa_supplicant. I have 3 wifi devices which are able to connect to this hotspot and use the internet. I want to know what "mode" each device chose to connect using (by which I mean cipher suites/encryption techniques = WPA/WPA2 & TKIP/AES/CCMP). How do I query this information? My router seems to know this information just fine and shows it up in its web pages, now I want to be able to pull up the same info on my Linux PC. hostapd does not seem to be installed, so I'm wary of installing it to use hostapd_cli because it might disrupt whatever is currently running. wpa_cli refuses to run because it can't connect to the running instance [wpa_cli is now running after enabling its control socket](https://www.jfcarter.net/~jimc/documents/bugfix/34-wpa_cli.html) , but I can't tell how to ask it for this information. Background: I'm trying to debug some wifi connection issues with an IoT device, which is happily connecting to a hotspot hosted by my PC but not to my network hosted from the router device. I suspect an encryption issue.
Asked by Milind R (111 rep)
Feb 25, 2025, 02:48 PM
Last activity: Mar 12, 2025, 05:32 PM