Re: software to survey Access Points in Fedora 8?

GeekBoy wrote:
I just put in a Airlink 101 AWLH403 (Atheros Chip) I had laying around after seeing there are good drivers for it.

F8 sees it fine and I can configure it, but one problem, I cannot see what access points I can pick up.

I live two blocks away from a university that I attend and I am trying to save money by cutting off my cable and using their wireless system on campus. (Yes, I have performed tests on it. 6MB down/4MB up. I don't get that fast UP with cable)


I currently have a bidirectional attenna connected to it, but cannot tell what access points I can pick up.
Thus I am wondering what I can use to perform a site survey.

I tried just activating the card, but without luck since it seems to want to connect to an access point before it activates the card.

I also looked at what the packages available and installed them, but they basically do the same thing. They seem to want you to connect to an access point with knowing what you need to connetc to prior to connecting.

Thanks

GB



/sbin/iwlist ap will give you a list of access points in range.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: System slow afer XP-SP2 Update on some applications
    ... Updated your video/sound card hardware drivers from the manufacturers' web ... Many problems just became more noticable with SP2, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • Re: New xP, microphone no longer works
    ... using Windows XP "prettifications". ... You also have hardware on your machine that requires drivers to interface ... You have a video card that allows you to see on ... a sound card that allows you to hear your PCs sound output and ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: SP2 a joke!
    ... >had some problems with my sound card after update to ... >> Your hardware drivers likely need updating anyway. ... >> suggestions for third party applications to do this ... >> ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: New PC - everything supported by Fedora Core 3 ?
    ... I ended up using a Mad Dog FX 5500 PCI based video card. ... With this combination the Nvidia drivers loaded and worked with very ... The biggest problem I had was with the on board ethernet controller. ... I am using only SATA type hard drives. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Latest on Word 2003 Crashing Display
    ... They then suggested it was not a card problem. ... Catalyst drivers installed and Word still crashes my system. ... Other Office applications work fine in safe mode. ... > appears behind the black font. ...
    (microsoft.public.office.misc)