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4 .TH IWLIST 8 "23 June 2004" "wireless-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
9 iwlist \- Get more detailed wireless information from a wireless interface
14 .BI "iwlist " interface " scanning"
16 .BI "iwlist " interface " frequency"
18 .BI "iwlist " interface " rate"
20 .BI "iwlist " interface " key"
22 .BI "iwlist " interface " power"
24 .BI "iwlist " interface " txpower"
26 .BI "iwlist " interface " retry"
28 .BI "iwlist " interface " event"
32 .BI "iwlist --version"
38 is used to display some additional information from a wireless network
39 interface that is not displayed by
41 The main argument is used
42 to select a category of information,
44 displays in detailed form all information related to this category,
45 including information already shown by
53 Give the list of Access Points and Ad-Hoc cells in range, and
54 optionally a whole bunch of information about them (ESSID, Quality,
55 Frequency, Mode...). The type of information returned depends on what
58 Triggering scanning is a privileged operation
60 only) and normal users can only read left-over scan results. By
61 default, the way scanning is done (the scope of the scan) will be
62 impacted by the current setting of the driver. Also, this command is
63 supposed to take extra arguments to control the scanning behaviour,
64 but this is currently not implemented.
66 .BR freq [uency]/ channel
67 Give the list of available frequencies in the device and the number of
68 defined channels. Please note that usually the driver returns the
69 total number of channels and only the frequencies available in the
70 present locale, so there is no one-to-one mapping between frequencies
71 displayed and channel numbers.
74 List the bit-rates supported by the device.
76 .BR key / enc [ryption]
77 List the encryption key sizes supported and display all the encryption
78 keys available in the device.
81 List the various Power Management attributes and modes of the device.
84 List the various Transmit Powers available on the device.
87 List the transmit retry limits and retry lifetime on the device.
89 .BR ap / accesspoint / peers
90 Give the list of Access Points in range, and optionally the quality of
91 link to them. This feature is
93 and now deprecated in favor of scanning support (above), and most
94 drivers don't support it.
96 Some drivers may use this command to return a specific list of Peers
97 or Access Points, such as the list of Peers associated/registered with
98 the card. See your driver documentation for details.
101 List the wireless events supported by the device.
104 Display the version of the tools, as well as the recommended and
105 current Wireless Extensions version for the tool and the various
111 .I /proc/net/wireless