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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] mwavelan_cs instead of orinoco_cs in BL wireless
  • Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:28:16 -0600

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:10:45PM +0000, 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.

Once again, kismet is one you shouold look at. Does not require X. I used it
effectively a
couple of years ago when I first started to experiment with wireless. Kismet.
Take a look at
it.

James




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