On 20/02/14 21:50, Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:42:35 -0600 > Joseph Hesse wrote: > >> Apparently my hardware is not sufficient. When I run "iwlist scan" I get: >> >> lo p5p1; Interface doesn't support scanning > > I'm pretty sure you have to run it as root user. > and you normally need to specify the wireless interface that's doing the scanning (e.g, wlan0). So the normal usage would be, as root: iwlist wlan0 scan