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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

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