interface doesn't support scanning

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interface doesn't support scanning

voladoddi opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

I'm trying to use the command line to run #wifi scan but I get the following error :
Error: wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Ubuntu version is 12.04 LTS

Rocky Meza · Answer 1 · Tue Feb 10 2015 11:07:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi!

I'm sorry you are running into issues. Can you send me the output of:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

Pooja Voladoddi · Answer 2 · Wed Feb 11 2015 01:23:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It's the same message I get even if I'm root/superuser. I was wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that Ubuntu on my system is on a virtual machine?

Rocky Meza · Answer 3 · Wed Feb 11 2015 08:05:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Oh! You are running Ubuntu inside something like Virtualbox? Yeah, since the OS doesn't really have access to the hardware, we can't really get there. What is your host machine?

Pooja Voladoddi · Answer 4 · Wed Feb 11 2015 14:19:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Host is Mac OS X Mavericks(10.9) . My interface name there is "en1".
Tried using that on linux but just doesn't work.

Maybe there is a way to access interfaces using linux even though it's a virtual machine but I don't know yet.

I just used an inbuilt diagnostic tool from Apple and called it from command line for now.

Rocky Meza · Answer 5 · Wed Feb 11 2015 14:22:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I don't think I've seen anybody try to do that before. Currently, this library only supports linux (on the host OS, I guess) because it uses a bunch of the linux wireless-tools.

I don't know if there are compatible libraries on mac, but if there are, I would be super happy to try to work them in. What was the diagnostic tool you used?

Thanks for trying!