Re: Scanning etc with Airport Driver

[Dean Hamstead <dean@bong.com.au>]

i was actually looking for "iwlist ethX ap" but scanning seems to
do what i want

hmm, *looks at man page* i see ap is depreciated. good work me ;)

thanks matthias


Dean

Matthias Grimm wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:52:34 +1100
> Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > whats the status with scanning in the airport/orinoco driver? has 
> > anything been finalized and committed to the kernel?
>
> I use the debian kernel 2.6.18-3 here on a Pismo with Airport card
> and scanning worked out of the box (iwlist scanning).
>
> Also kismet worked with the orinoco driver. It instantly found my
> Airport station but also detected a steadily increasing number of
> phantom networks with invalid data (floating hardware address and no
> information about the used channel). I think this are non-WLAN devices
> using the 2.4GHz band and wrongly detected by
> airport/orinoco-driver/kismet. Has anyone seen a similar phenomenon?
>
>   Best Regards
>     Matthias

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