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

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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

iwlist eth0 ap - lists the 8 strongest access points, with my aironet 
card, and iwconfig eth0 ap NUMBER chooses the ap instead of using the 
strongest one, with my aironet card.  This does not work with orinocolo.

> 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.

> 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.

I uncompressed in /usr/src/pcmcia* and read the README.  There is a 
mwavelan.mk.  Since I don't know how to make just one module I typed 'make 
all', it ran config and I told it to use the current kernel not the source 
tree kernel (they are the same but dated differently because I copy things 
around), and it made all the modules again (did not take too long) plus 
mwavelan_cs, which I have copied to /lib/modules/2.4.31/pcmcia and also to

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31

for use with linksys WPC11 ver 3 (not 4) and Lucent Orinoco cards
and MY 2.4.31 kernels (not David's, compiled with a different glibc, which 
require his modules instead).

I will test it maybe next year.  (Everyone is trying to use up their 
translation budget in the next week and I am a self-employed translator).

I do not need to compile sniffer now.

My neighbor said he got to the home page of the county free signal using 
an antenna.  You can buy PCI wireless cards with antennas or at least with 
a place to add one.

SINDI