[svlug] real basic wireless access question!!

[Michael Cheselka]

use kismet or some such

On 6/5/07, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> Michael Cheselka writes:
> > Scan for open ESSIDs and sort by signal strength:
> >
> > iwlist ath0 scan | egrep 'ESSID|Quality=|Encryption key:off' | tr -s '
> > ' | tr -d '\n' | sed -e 's/ ESSID/\nESSID/g' | egrep off | sort -t= -k
> > 2n
>
> Related question: with my prism54 card, when I iwlist eth0 scan,
> I only see ten or fifteen networks. Amazingly enough, in downtown
> Mountain View, that's nowhere near the whole list, and if I run
> iwlist eth0 scan five times in a row, I'll get five different
> lists, with some overlap. Is there a way to get the whole list of
> available networks? Is it a function of the wireless card driver
> (e.g. something atheros can do while prism54 can't?)
>
>         ...Akkana
>
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