Networking :: Wireless Access Point Detector

So I have my wireless card, and I am using a dsl hd install. dsl recognizes this card and all is good. My only problem is that fact that I don't have any way of scanning for wireless accesspoints that are available. I have tried iwlist eth0 scan and I don't have scanning support. I tried compiling kismet, and that didn't work, it needed libncurses which wouldn't compile as well. so, I don't care how it works, I just want a simple list of the current active access points, and if they are encrypted or not. Is this possible? Thanks!

fyi: you can get libncurses in myDSL

your wireless card is shown as eth0 ?
Hmmm.....
When you do a ifconfig in the terminal is eth0 the only one other than loopback ?

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