IWLIST(8)		  Linux Programmer's Manual		    IWLIST(8)



NAME
       iwlist - Get more detailed wireless information from a wireless inter-
       face

SYNOPSIS
       iwlist interface scanning
       iwlist interface frequency
       iwlist interface rate
       iwlist interface key
       iwlist interface power
       iwlist interface txpower
       iwlist interface retry
       iwlist interface event
       iwlist --help
       iwlist --version

DESCRIPTION
       Iwlist is used to display some additional information from a  wireless
       network	interface  that	 is  not  displayed by iwconfig(8).  The main
       argument is used to select a category of information, iwlist  displays
       in  detailed  form all information related to this category, including
       information already shown by iwconfig(8).

PARAMETERS
       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, Frequency, Mode...). The type of information  returned
	      depends on what the card supports.
	      Triggering  scanning  is a privileged operation (root only) and
	      normal users can only read left-over scan results. By  default,
	      the  way	scanning  is  done  (the  scope	 of the scan) will be
	      impacted by the current setting of the driver. Also, this	 com-
	      mand  is	supposed to take extra arguments to control the scan-
	      ning behaviour, but this is currently not implemented.

       freq[uency]/channel
	      Give the list of available frequencies in the  device  and  the
	      number of defined channels. Please note that usually the driver
	      returns the total number of channels and only  the  frequencies
	      available in the present locale, so there is no one-to-one map-
	      ping between frequencies displayed and channel numbers.

       rate/bit[rate]
	      List the bit-rates supported by the device.

       key/enc[ryption]
	      List the encryption key sizes supported  and  display  all  the
	      encryption keys available in the device.

       power  List  the	 various Power Management attributes and modes of the
	      device.

       txpower
	      List the various Transmit Powers available on the device.

       retry  List the transmit	 retry	limits	and  retry  lifetime  on  the
	      device.

       ap/accesspoint/peers
	      Give  the	 list  of  Access Points in range, and optionally the
	      quality of link to them.	This  feature  is  obsolete  and  now
	      deprecated  in  favor  of	 scanning  support  (above), and most
	      drivers don't support it.
	      Some drivers may use this command to return a specific list  of
	      Peers  or	 Access	 Points,  such	as  the list of Peers associ-
	      ated/registered with the card. See  your	driver	documentation
	      for details.

       event  List the wireless events supported by the device.

       --version
	      Display  the  version  of the tools, as well as the recommended
	      and current Wireless Extensions version for the  tool  and  the
	      various wireless interfaces.

FILES
       /proc/net/wireless

SEE ALSO
       iwconfig(8), iwspy(8).  iwevent(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7).




wireless-tools			 23 June 2004			    IWLIST(8)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. more
2. display
3. card
4. users
5. locale
6. ping
7. link
8. as