Wireless tools on laptops

From: Alan W Black (awb_at_cs.cmu.edu)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: 29 May 2004 12:35:26 -0400

On "other" OSs (Windows and WinCE) the wireless tools allow you to see
all close networks and identify their essid, but I don't know what
tool I should use under Linux to achieve the same thing. I have been
in the position where there are a number of wireless networks but I
don't know them name of the one I want to join and have used
a WinCE device to tell me the name, but I'd prefer to
do this directly on my laptop top.

(Note this isn't for wardriving but for attaching to networks in
hotels, I recently was in a position where I couldn't contact the
pay network because I kept getting access to some hotel internal network,
and didn't know the name of the pay network until I asked a Windows user).

Are their suitable tools?

thanks

Alan

Alan W Black email: awb@cs.cmu.edu
Language Technologies Institute http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
Carnegie Mellon University tel: +1-412-268-6299
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA, 15213, USA. fax: +1-412-268-6298

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