Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-25 Thread Joseph Hesse
On 02/24/2014 07:58 PM, Billy Crook wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:42:35 -0600 Joseph Hesse wrote: Apparently my hardware is not sufficient. When I run iwlist scan I get: lo p5p1; Interface doesn't support

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-24 Thread Billy Crook
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:42:35 -0600 Joseph Hesse wrote: Apparently my hardware is not sufficient. When I run iwlist scan I get: lo p5p1; Interface doesn't support scanning I'm pretty sure you have to run it as

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Tom Bishop
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Joseph Hesse joehe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am having interference with my neighbouring wireless networks. Is there a linux tool that enables me to monitor the ESSID, channel, power output and other information for neighbouring wireless networks? I am

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Lars Hecking
There is a really good Android app, WIFI analyzer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer if you have access to a phone or better yet a tablet. Very nice and allows you to look at all kinds of things, I also know of another one called Wifi Radar for linux but

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Lars Hecking lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: There is a really good Android app, WIFI analyzer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer if you have access to a phone or better yet a tablet. Very nice and allows you to look

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Billy Crook
there's the iwlist command. I put together an awk script to columnate the data I cared about, and a cronjob that runs it analyzes it for things i care about (like neighbors using my same or similar network name, same frequencies, etc, and put it in a cronjob to log and email me anomalies. Works

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Joseph Hesse
Apparently my hardware is not sufficient. When I run iwlist scan I get: lo p5p1; Interface doesn't support scanning On 02/20/2014 11:52 AM, Billy Crook wrote: there's the iwlist command. I put together an awk script to columnate the data I cared about, and a cronjob that runs it analyzes it

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:42:35 -0600 Joseph Hesse wrote: Apparently my hardware is not sufficient. When I run iwlist scan I get: lo p5p1; Interface doesn't support scanning I'm pretty sure you have to run it as root user. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Joseph Hesse
Thank you to you for the offer. As a learning experience I will try to do it myself. Also, thank you to the user who pointed out that the iwlist command has to be run as root. On 02/20/2014 11:52 AM, Billy Crook wrote: there's the iwlist command. I put together an awk script to columnate

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Lars Hecking
Joseph Hesse writes: Apparently my hardware is not sufficient. When I run iwlist scan I get: lo p5p1; Interface doesn't support scanning Is CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT enabled in the kernel? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Monitor Wireless Networks OT

2014-02-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/02/14 21:50, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:42:35 -0600 Joseph Hesse wrote: Apparently my hardware is not sufficient. When I run iwlist scan I get: lo p5p1; Interface doesn't support scanning I'm pretty sure you have to run it as root user. and you normally need to