From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Listing wireless access points on an airport card From: Owen Stampflee To: Corey Minyard Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <3E41F057.3070203@acm.org> References: <3E41F057.3070203@acm.org> Message-Id: <1044514529.1287.3608.camel@whitefusion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 05 Feb 2003 22:56:14 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > I have an iBook2 with an airport card in it, and I was looking for a way > to list all the access points. I tried "iwlist eth0 scan", but it > doesn't seem to be supported. Is it possible with this card? It seems > to work on OS X. There seems to be some stuff in the driver for this, > but it seems incomplete. Theres a patch available that will allow you to put the airport card into monitor mode, I tried but never got it working but others have. Google is your friend as I dont have the URL off hand. Then it's simply a matter of using a sniffing program such as Airsnort or Kismet to list the local access points. Owen -- Owen Stampflee - owen@stampflee.com - http://www.stampflee.com GnuPG Fingerprint: EDE6 48EC 4E65 BE83 D405 B091 B170 8AF0 F875 65E0 Download My Public Key: http://www.stampflee.com/owen.asc ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/