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CLI Magic: Kismet sniffs out Wi-Fi access (Linux.com)
Linux.com looks at
Kismet for discovering access points and diagnosing problems. "For
example, while configuring your own access point, you can use Kismet to see
which channels are being used in your area. Start Kismet and let it run for
a few minutes with channel-hopping enabled, so Kismet can scan the entire
range of Wi-Fi channels, and it will find all the access points within
range. You can then set your access point to an unused channel, thereby
minimizing potential interference from all the other ones. Once your
wireless network is configured, Kismet can check that you're on your chosen
channel and that encryption is working."
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CLI Magic: Kismet sniffs out Wi-Fi access (Linux.com) Posted Sep 11, 2006 19:51 UTC (Mon) by missinglink (guest, #40444) [Link] I just use: "iwlist ethx scanning" (replace x with one of [123456789]) a couple oftimes and it shows all the APs in the area. Also shows the channel and the signal strength. That said, I also use Kismet once in a while too.
CLI Magic: Kismet sniffs out Wi-Fi access (Linux.com) Posted Sep 11, 2006 20:12 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Better yet, "iwlist scan". Most wireless drivers use names that don't start with "eth".
CLI Magic: Kismet sniffs out Wi-Fi access (Linux.com) Posted Sep 12, 2006 8:20 UTC (Tue) by dag- (subscriber, #30207) [Link] I've written a tool called dwscan to simplify looking for free channels and to sort access-points based on quality. It also conveniently displays the association status and the dhcp status. Depending on the chipset you can also see the beacon-interval and last beacon time.
The only problem at this point is the discrepancy between driver implementation and wireless extension support. We are far from compatible information (both the values ad the same data that is made available).
Also drivers act differently to the python-wifi calls, that's something that needs to look into.
The tool is available from:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dwscan/
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