iw talks directly to the kernel's nl80211 wireless stack, and dev wlan0 link reports whether the card is connected, to which SSID and BSSID, the channel, and the negotiated data rate. A Not connected line means the radio is up but associated with nothing. It is the low-level complement to nmcli device wifi list.
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