Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:10:17 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: rafege@mail.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi Access Point Discovery Tools ? Message-ID: <1104531017.4155.12.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <41D4AA4B.nailGW211YVEI@mail.com> References: <41CF9DB0.nailF1W1WJMAN@mail.com> <41D02B8A.nailF913QOR3C@mail.com> <u2sr7la9qgd.fsf@pelleg.org> <41D4AA4B.nailGW211YVEI@mail.com>
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On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 20:24 -0500, Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D. wrote: > Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbsdm@pelleg.org> wrote: > > !It definitely works for me, using either a builtin mini-PCI (intel card > !using ipw) or PCCARD (lucent or US-robotics cards using wi). Further, I > !hardly ever need to do that manually since dhclient usually just DTRT for > [...] > > OK, that's interesting. > So, theoretically, "wicontrol -i wiX -L" should list access points > that are within range of the WiFi device... > What kind of output should I expect from this ? > > My kernel has "device wlan" and "device wi" compiled in > (I believe, since I'm away from notebook just now); > is anything else needed (kernel or userland) for "-L" to work ? > -- > Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D. <mailto:rafege@mail.com> > Please do not send me HTML-encoded mail. > It will be discarded automatically. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I do not have wi card handy to produce sample output, but from my recollection it is not any different: RabbitsDen# wicontrol -i ndis0 -l 2 stations: ap[0]: netname (SSID): [ YYYYYYYYYYYYY ] BSSID: [ 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ] Channel: [ 6 ] Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]: [ 85 / 85 / 0 ] [dBm]: [ 85 / -64 / -149 ] BSS Beacon Interval [msec]: [ 0 ] Capinfo: [ ] ap[1]: netname (SSID): [ XXXXXXXXXXXXXX ] BSSID: [ 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ] Channel: [ 11 ] Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]: [ 83 / 83 / 0 ] [dBm]: [ 83 / -66 / -149 ] BSS Beacon Interval [msec]: [ 0 ] Capinfo: [ WEP ] RabbitsDen# SSID and BSSID have been X'ed out on purpose. One on the top is my neighbor's station, one on the bottom is mine (one I am associated with at the moment). Devices wlan and wlan_wep are compiled into the kernel, if_ndis is loaded. Oh yeah, please notice lowercase 'el'. With uppercase 'el' I will get loads of info on the station I am associated with, so man page disagrees with wicontrol. I am running -current as of couple of weeks ago, but I believe that above worked for me at least since 5.2.1 days (I have been wrong before though ;). HTH, -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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