IWLIST(8) Linux Programmer's Manual IWLIST(8)NAMEiwlist - Get more detailed wireless information from a wireless inter‐
face
SYNOPSISiwlist 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 argu‐
ment 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, Qual‐
ity, 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 scanning
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 This feature is obsolete and now depre‐
cated 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 ALSOiwconfig(8), iwspy(8). iwevent(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7).
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