"Overkill of TASF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have experience with tri-mode (Dual mode, I guess) 802.11 > wireless cards on Linux that can do RF Monitoring? Price/performance > would be nice... > > Right now I have a Netgear WAG511. It does A/B/G, but the Linux > drivers are in beta.
My understanding is that there's basically one 802.11a chipset (the Atheros chipset); free-beer drivers can be had from http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/. (I've thought about packaging it, but haven't gotten to it yet.) Signal strength isn't quite published usefully via the standard interfaces, but you can get an approximate SNR from the levels from 'iwconfig ath0', and "quality" from 'iwlist ath0 ap'. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
