iwlist scan can't return AuthMode and EncrypTape

Dan Williams dcbw
Mon Jul 7 09:31:16 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 07:50 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:07 +0800, ??? wrote:
> > Dear hostap
> >              I am using Wireless Extension 16, Wireless_tools.26, on kernel 2.4.26.
> >              And i set my router with AuthMode = WPA-PSK,encrypType=auto,and when use iwlist scan,only get:
> ...
> >            would someone tell me how to show the information:  
> >                   IE: WPA Version 1
> >                         Group Cipher : TKIP
> >                         Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
> >                         Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
> 
> Use a recent version of Wireless Tools.  Version 26 doesn't even have
> "WPA Version" in the sources, but version 29 has it.

The driver has to support returning the WPA IEs as well (which of course
requires a recent version of wireless-tools and WE >= 18 in the kernel).

Dan





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