From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 1 22:19:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4468837B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from subterrain.net (subterrain.net [66.179.0.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AEA43E97 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbl@subterrain.net) Received: from subterrain.net (jbl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by subterrain.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g925Jblh087836; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbl@subterrain.net) Received: (from jbl@localhost) by subterrain.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g925Jbcm087835; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:19:37 -0700 From: Justin Lundy To: FreeBSD Mobile Cc: The Jetman Subject: Re: Utilities for Determining Signal Strength Message-ID: <20021002051937.GB87691@subterrain.net> References: <20020907035520.GC3235@spc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020907035520.GC3235@spc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: 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 --jbl On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:55:20AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:29:49PM -0400, The Jetman wrote: > > Seeking a console utility for monitoring Wi-Fi signal strength. I > > really don't want to use X, but if something serviceable is avail under > > X, I'll take it. > > /usr/ports/net/wmwave > /usr/sbin/wicontrol > > BMS > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- --jbl [subterrain / techitch] --email : jbl@subterrain.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message