[CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

Fri Feb 21 01:17:36 UTC 2014
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

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