Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:59:10 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Justin Lundy <jbl@subterrain.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, The Jetman <jetman516@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Utilities for Determining Signal Strength Message-ID: <20021002165910.309F05D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:19:37 PDT." <20021002051937.GB87691@subterrain.net>
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> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:37 -0700 > From: Justin Lundy <jbl@subterrain.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > Also, I recommend bsd-airtools[1]. Although it provides more functionality > than you need, it will allow you to monitor WiFi signal strength in a > variety of ways. Taken from its documentation: > > bsd-airtools is a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless > 802.11b auditing. Namely, it currently contains a bsd-based wep cracking > application, called dweputils (as well as kernel patches for NetBSD, > OpenBSD, and FreeBSD). It also contains a curses based ap detection > application similar to netstumbler (dstumbler) that can be used to detect > wireless access points and connected nodes, view signal to noise graphs, > and interactively scroll through scanned ap's and view statistics for each. > It also includes a couple other tools to provide a complete toolset for > making use of all 14 of the prism2 debug modes as well as do basic analysis > of the hardware-based link-layer protocols provided by prism2's monitor > debug mode." > > References: > > [1] http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html > For a light weight solution, there is a gkrellmwireless port that will add signal strength to the gkrellm system monitor. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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