SETUP: I plugged my laptop (Ubuntu 14) to my RPi 3 (Raspbian Stretch) via ssh over an Ethernet cable.

PROBLEM:

Doing nmcli dev wifi on the laptop gives me a whole bunch of networks. Typing the same command on the R Pi gives me no network at all. I have tried ifconfig, all the interfaces (eth0, lo, wlan1) appear as expected.

ATTEMPTS:

I tried :

• Edimax dongle (named wlan0): no network detected by that interface either.
• systemctl restart network-manager
• restart the interfaces (ifconfig wlan1 down)

to no avail.

Curiously, iwlist wlan0 scan does return all the networks I am after.

GOAL:

My goal is to nmcli dev wifi connect to my network (I don't want to use wpa_supplicant)

How to solve this please?

I think it might be related to this (unsanswered) question.