1 .\" Guus Sliepen - 2001
2 .\" Completed and fixed up by Jean Tourrilhes - 2002
5 .TH IWGETID 8 "7 August 2001" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
10 iwgetid \- Report ESSID, NWID or AP/Cell Address of wireless network
15 .BI "iwgetid " [interface] " [--scheme] [--ap] [--freq] [--mode]"
24 is used to find out the NWID, ESSID or AP/Cell Address of the wireless
25 network that is currently used. The information reported is the same
27 .BR iwconfig ", but " iwgetid
28 is easier to integrate in various scripts.
34 of the device, and if the device doesn't have any ESSID it will print
43 This option disables pretty-printing of the information, only the raw
44 ESSID (or NWID, or AP Address) is printed. Also, characters that are
45 not alphanumerics (like space, punctuation and control characters) are
48 The resulting output is a valid Pcmcia scheme identifier (that may be
49 used as an argument of the command
50 .BR "cardctl scheme" ).
51 This format is also ideal when using the result of iwgetid as a
59 Display the MAC address of the Wireless
69 used by the interface.
79 of the interface. This allow to identify all the cards that are
80 compatible with each other and accept the same type of
83 This can also be used to
84 .I check Wireless Extension support
85 on the interface, as this is the only attribute that all drivers
86 supporting Wireless Extension are mandated to support.