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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:22:35 -0500
From:      Eric Gebhart <saseag@unx.sas.com>
To:        Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: looking for wireless speed/signal meter
Message-ID:  <20021216142235.Y8975@unx.sas.com>
In-Reply-To: <200212161644.gBGGi0MI006163@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>; from jrb@cs.pdx.edu on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:44:00AM -0800
References:  <20021216162508.GG44946@moaner.org> <200212161644.gBGGi0MI006163@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>

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I use gkrellm.  There is a wireless add-on for it.

/usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm

/usr/ports/net/gkrellmwireless

Or just do

locate gkrellm | grep gkrellm

There are several other add-ons.

Eric

----- Jim Binkley's Original Message -----
> 
> Matt,
> 
> doesn't that work with prism2 only; i.e., not lucent.
> It's in 4.7 with prism2 only.
> 
> btw, somebody managed to break my port (it won't compile)
> of wscan from 4.6 to 4.7.  This was done by mucking with
> the wicache # stuff I believe.  
> 
> Although given wicontrol -L working with prism2, I might as 
> well make a wscan 2.0 when I can get around to it.
> 
> It would be nice at some point to know why certain Lucent/Orinoco
> card firmware CAN support sending a probe and getting back
> N APs, and (possibly?) some cannot?  Anybody have any clues on that,
> or what firmware can do it, and what can't? 
> 
> 				Jim Binkley
> 				jrb@cs.pdx.edu
> 
> Your message <20021216162508.GG44946@moaner.org>:
> >In CURRENT, try wicontrol -L (list avail access points).  This is a
> >"lite weight" dstumbler.  It will list APs tab-delimated by SSID, BSSID
> >(MAC address), and SNR (Signal Noise Ratio).
> >
> >This is limited to the wi(4) driver and I don't think Warner has
> >chosen the final output format, YMMV.
> >
> >On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:09:56AM +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> >> at the EuroBSDcon in Amsterdam I saw a linux box that have a nice console, 
> >> curse based, application that displays the current speed and signal 
> >> strenght (+ many other param)
> >
> >-- 
> >Matt Peterson         another.geek.without.a.life
> >matt@peterson.org       http://matt.peterson.org/
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