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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> 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