Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:24:27 -0500 From: rafege@mail.com (Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.) To: daniel+fbsdm@pelleg.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi Access Point Discovery Tools ? Message-ID: <41D4AA4B.nailGW211YVEI@mail.com> In-Reply-To: <u2sr7la9qgd.fsf@pelleg.org> References: <41CF9DB0.nailF1W1WJMAN@mail.com> <41CF9FE1.9050207@math.missouri.edu> <41D02B8A.nailF913QOR3C@mail.com> <u2sr7la9qgd.fsf@pelleg.org>
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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.
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