---
name: "swscanner"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "swscanner"
version: "0.2.2-2.1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/swscanner"
---

# swscanner(1)

Wireless networks manager for KDE

## NAME

swscanner — Wireless networks manager for KDE

## SYNOPSIS

**swscanner** \[**Qt-options**\]  \[**KDE-options**\]  \[**Options**\]  \[File\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **swscanner** command.

swscanner is an application specially designed to deal with wardriving tasks, but also with many other non-wardriving-related wireless network managing tasks like detecting, configuring and profiling networks. It's perfect for advanced wireless users as well as novel users first-time dealing with wireless networks.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax,with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of options is included below.

### General Options

- **--help**

  Show help about options

- **--help-qt**

  Show Qt specific options

- **--help-kde**

  Show KDE specific options

- **--help-all**

  Show all options

- **--author**

  Show author information

- **-v**, **--version**

  Show version of program

- **--license**

  Show license information

### Program Options

- **-i**, **--iface** *interface*

  Set the preselected network interface

- **-f**, **--fileopen** *file*

  Set the file to open on start (\*.sws, \*.nsf)

- **--startscan**

  Automatically starts scanning

- **--on**

  Same as **--startscan**

- **--enable-sound**

  Enable sound on start (disabled by default)

### Arguments

- **File**

  File to open on start (\*.sws, \*.nsf). Same as **--fileopen**

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ivan Forcada Atienza, ivan@swscanner.org, for the **Debian GNU/Linux** system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.