From d140e224c9fa033bc7f94dc743947cd3780aaad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Kuster Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 14:21:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ReadMe updated --- README.md | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 681ed80..6616760 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -66,9 +66,22 @@ Unfortunately, Mac OS-X and Windows use the system language for the output which generic way of parsing the data. If you experience any troubles, please create a GitHub issue and supply the output of the tool. -**Important note for Linux users**: iwlist does only return all found networks if run as sudo! Otherwise you'll +## Limits of the tool + +There is no such thing as perfect software and this is all the more true when the tools used require different +access rights depending on +the operating system. Please note the following restrictions +before using this tool in a productive system. + +**Linux**: iwlist does only return all found networks if run as sudo! Otherwise you'll get only the network you're connected to. +**Windows**: there are some network cards which do not +return the MAC address and other parameters of the found networks. In this case +the "found" networks are ignored as there is no valuable data. If you have this effect +on your system, please provide as many information about your system (PC manufacturer, network +card, OS,...) as available. Thanks + ## Licence The MIT License (MIT)