Software Manual

WE865-DUAL Software User Guide

1vv0300788 Rev. 0 08/08/08

6.2 iwlist

iwlist is used to display some additional information from a wireless network interface that is not

displayed by iwconfig. 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.

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

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 command 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 mapping 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.