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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] mwavelan_cs instead of orinoco_cs in BL wireless was Re: 486 Laptops/Gmail on BL etc.
  • Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:00:19 +0000 (UTC)


would be nice if there was a "user mode" hardware-based encryption
option... skipjack would be amusing to use simply because of its
age... id love to see the look on the wardrivers faces...


My neighbor said to search on wardrivers and sniffers to find programs that will detect access points and give you their IP numbers. I found a list including a CLI one which depends on iwlist scan, which my card does not support with the orinoco_cs or the other two usual pcmcia drivers (wvlan_cs and wavelan2_cs). The Windows wavelan2 driver supports all the features, linux does not work right with iwpriv and iwspy ap, to detect all the access points available. I can only access the strongest access point, not detect a list of them. Most programs or features tell me they are not supported with my device driver. I have detected three different networks, one at a time, at different times and places, two with signal stronger than noise level. The neighbor will look up their IP addresses with Windows so I can practice pinging them. (They are not on the internet, he says).

I found the above info at the site which provides http://www.cs.umd.edu/~moustafa/mwavelan/mwavelan_cs-1.10.tar.gz, which is source code for compiling an improved driver with the missing functions, which can show signal strength for ALL access points like the Windows driver.

I have pcmcia source code in /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.2.8/ directories such as /include /modules /clients /wireless /flash /man /doc.

The mwavelan_cs code contains a bunch of text files and also some ending in .h, .a, .c, .conf, .mk, .patch in /include /lib/ /wireless /etc and /man. Do I just uncompress the .tgz in the pcmcia directory so that the new files will end up in /include /wireless etc?

Do I have to make all again or can I make mwavelan_cs? I need to 'make config', says Build. Tested for 2.4.2. I had to use 2.4.31 because 2.2.26 segfaulted with orinoco.

The info it should provide is a list of access points with qualities. Their examples have signal -68 to -89, which is better than my strongest signal, and noise about 2/3 mine. But it does not provide IP numbers.
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I found 'sniffer-0.5.tar.gz' from www.stev.org which I think provides the IP addresses and is ncurses-based and worked with 2.2.16 RH6.1. 64K


README says to just run 'make' which produced about 20 lines of 'dereferencing pointer to incomplete type' for sniff.c, Error 1. Preceded by some warnings. I have kernel header files in /usr/include/linux as instructed. /usr/lib/libthread.so and .a (It says I need the linux a C compiler and the linux pthreads library).

'Some knowledge of C would be helpful if you get compile errors'. Thanks.


I have glibc 2.5.2 from SW8.1 and this worked with Redhat 6.1 - what next?

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I hope the library knows its IP address. My friends do not know theirs.


Sindi




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