[oclug] Wireless Scanning under Linux

[Bill Strosberg]

Messier, Jean-Francois wrote:

>I finally managed to install a wireless card that works under Linux,
>with soime other constraints, like a single PCMCIA for both CDROM
>(yeah!) and the wireless card. The distro which made the job the best
>was Ubuntu 5.04. Great distro, for one who does not waht to always vi
>the config tiles, and such........ I also have my wireless card working
>with my local access point at home and can surf the net.
> 
>I now would like to know what are good tools to scan for open access
>points. I want to test in my neighbourhood, but more importantly at my
>friend's office. We suspect that there are some wireless access points
>that we don't know about. 
> 
>Thanks :-)
> 
>JF
>  
>
Kismet, Airsnort etc.  To get Kismet working under Ubuntu you'll have to
recompile the orinoco module if you are using an orinoco-based wireless
adapter.  Isn't hard - I've done it recently and it's still fresh in my
memory.

Basically, the monitor mode necessary is not available in the standard
Orinoco module with 5.04 Hoary. 

apt-get airsnort kismet

Guaranteed there will be unknown access points found.

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Bill Strosberg