On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 13:04 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > > > AFAIK you can't actually run that command at all unless you're root, > > since it has the potential to interrupt traffic either way. > > From the man page for iwlist: > > 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) is dependant on the card and card > settings.
Right; we're both a bit wrong. Only root can actually make the card scan (either active or passive). A normal user can only read cached scan results from a previous scan, but cannot actually initiate a scan at all. Dan > This command takes optional arguments, however most drivers > will > ignore those. The option essid is used to specify a scan on a specific ESSID > so > you will also see hidden networks with that name in addition to the > regular scan results. The option last does not trigger a scan and reads > left-over scan results. > > This is the way that openSUSE works. I would not expect it to be different in > other distros. > > Larry > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
