Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-21 Thread Edd Barrett
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:14:49AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-03-20, Matt open...@women-at-work.org wrote: Thank you all - that worked (both 'chan' and 'scan'). you should use scan, chan does something else now. bah, this keeps changing! -- Best Regards Edd Barrett

How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-20 Thread Matt
Hi, Happily running a laptop on OpenBSD - but I am a first time wifi-er. I have no trouble connecting to a _known_ SSID, but I would like to find out which wifi networks are within my reach. I did man/search archives but no luck there - I've seen monitoring mode - can set my card to it,

Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-20 Thread Aaron Stellman
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:12:45AM +0100, Matt wrote: Hi, All I need to be able to do is see what networks are available when out and about, nothing more. Obviously I am not the only user with this wish - so I am probably missing something extremely obvious :-( (Running 4.5 snapshot

Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-20 Thread Janne Johansson
Matt wrote: Hi, Happily running a laptop on OpenBSD - but I am a first time wifi-er. I have no trouble connecting to a _known_ SSID, but I would like to find out which wifi networks are within my reach. ifconfig iwn0 chan man ifconfig: [...] chan [n] Set the channel

Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-20 Thread Frank Habicht
man ifconfig: chan [n] Set the channel (radio frequency) to be used for IEEE 802.11-based wireless network interfaces to n. With no channel specified, show the results of an access point scan. In Host AP mode, this will dump the list of known nodes without

Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-20 Thread Matt
Thank you all - that worked (both 'chan' and 'scan'). Now that I actually know what to search for I found lots of good info... *blush* For those thinking regexp / awk / automation - see: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20071224164233

Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-03-20, Matt open...@women-at-work.org wrote: Thank you all - that worked (both 'chan' and 'scan'). you should use scan, chan does something else now.

Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-20 Thread Floor Terra
I was confused by this a few days ago. I guess I should keep track of all cvs commits. Floor On Mar 20, 2009 10:20 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2009-03-20, Matt open...@women-at-work.org wrote: Thank you all - that worked (both 'chan' an... you should use scan, chan does