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6 iwlist - Get more detailed wireless information from a wireless inter‐
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10 iwlist interface scanning
11 iwlist interface frequency
12 iwlist interface rate
13 iwlist interface key
14 iwlist interface power
15 iwlist interface txpower
16 iwlist interface retry
17 iwlist interface event
18 iwlist --help
19 iwlist --version
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22 Iwlist is used to display some additional information from a wireless
23 network interface that is not displayed by iwconfig(8). The main argu‐
24 ment is used to select a category of information, iwlist displays in
25 detailed form all information related to this category, including
26 information already shown by iwconfig(8).
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29 scan[ning]
30 Give the list of Access Points and Ad-Hoc cells in range, and
31 optionally a whole bunch of information about them (ESSID, Qual‐
32 ity, Frequency, Mode...). The type of information returned
33 depends on what the card supports.
34 Triggering scanning is a privileged operation (root only) and
35 normal users can only read left-over scan results. By default,
36 the way scanning is done (the scope of the scan) will be
37 impacted by the current setting of the driver. Also, this com‐
38 mand is supposed to take extra arguments to control the scanning
39 behaviour, but this is currently not implemented.
40 freq[uency]/channel
42 Give the list of available frequencies in the device and the
43 number of defined channels. Please note that usually the driver
44 returns the total number of channels and only the frequencies
45 available in the present locale, so there is no one-to-one map‐
46 ping between frequencies displayed and channel numbers.
47 rate/bit[rate]
49 List the bit-rates supported by the device.
50 key/enc[ryption]
52 List the encryption key sizes supported and display all the
53 encryption keys available in the device.
54 power List the various Power Management attributes and modes of the
56 device.
57 txpower
59 List the various Transmit Powers available on the device.
60 retry List the transmit retry limits and retry lifetime on the device.
62 ap/accesspoint/peers
64 Give the list of Access Points in range, and optionally the
65 quality of link to them. This feature is obsolete and now depre‐
66 cated in favor of scanning support (above), and most drivers
67 don't support it.
68 Some drivers may use this command to return a specific list of
69 Peers or Access Points, such as the list of Peers associ‐
70 ated/registered with the card. See your driver documentation for
71 details.
72 event List the wireless events supported by the device.
74 --version
76 Display the version of the tools, as well as the recommended and
77 current Wireless Extensions version for the tool and the various
78 wireless interfaces.
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81 /proc/net/wireless
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84 iwconfig(8), iwspy(8). iwevent(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7).
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