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[android-x86/external-wireless-tools.git] / wireless_tools / iwlist.8

diff --git a/wireless_tools/iwlist.8 b/wireless_tools/iwlist.8
index 3623626..731031b 100644 (file)
--- a/wireless_tools/iwlist.8
+++ b/wireless_tools/iwlist.8
@@ -50,11 +50,6 @@ total number of channels and only the frequencies available in the
 present locale, so there is no one to one mapping between frequencies
 displayed and channel numbers.
 .TP
-.BR ap / accesspoint
-Give the list of Access Points in range, and optionally the quality of
-link to them. This feature is obsolte and now deprecated in favor of
-scanning support (below), and it will disappear in the future.
-.TP
 .BR scan [ning]
 Give the list of Access Points and Ad-Hoc cells in range, and
 optionally a whole bunch of information about them (ESSID, Quality,
@@ -69,6 +64,15 @@ impacted by the current setting of the driver. Also, this command is
 supposed to take extra arguments to control the scanning behaviour,
 but this is currently not implemented.
 .TP
+.BR ap / accesspoint / peers
+Give the list of Access Points in range, and optionally the quality of
+link to them. This feature is obsolte and now deprecated in favor of
+scanning support (above), and most drivers don't support it.
+.br
+Some drivers may use this command to return a specific list of Peers
+or Access Points, such as the list of Peers associated/registered with
+the card. See your driver documentation for details.
+.TP
 .BR rate / bit [rate]
 List the bit-rates supported by the device.
 .TP
@@ -99,7 +103,8 @@ wireless interfaces.
 .\"
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR iwconfig (8),
-.BR ifconfig (8),
 .BR iwspy (8).
-.BR iwpriv (8).
+.BR iwevent (8),
+.BR iwpriv (8),
+.BR wireless (7).