How to check which wireless protocol is in use? Wicd?

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Wicd one can see the available wireless networks. How can the user
> check which protocol (-g, -n) each network uses? Can it be done right
> there in Wicd, or is some other tool necessary? Thanks!
>
>
You use the wireless tool natively present on Ubuntu "iwlist" for that :
$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning

This will show details of all the APs in the clients vicinity.

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