I'm travelling with my laptop at the moment (Mexico & Central America), hence I'm often using wireless in internet cafes, backpackers, etc. Most of the time they'll just say "the password for wireless is XXX". If you ask them what the name of the network is they'll look at you blankly; if you ask them what sort of encryption (wep, wpa, wpa2) they'll look at you like a Martian... I presume this is because in Windoze you just select a network and put in a password and it works out the encryption type.
What heuristics to people take for connecting to these networks? Any tools/scripts/techniques for working out the name of the closest network and/or what sort of encryption a network uses? At the moment I'm just limited to trying all the possible combinations in NetworkManager (Ubuntu 7.04) until I eventually connect (or more often, don't connect). I've got Kismet setup, but if there's no n/w traffic, there's nothing to detect. I'm also playing with aircrack-ng & wifi-radar to see if they help... Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com mobile in Mexico: +52-664-165-6914 (sms's preferred) celular en México: +52-664-165-6914 (prefiero mensajes cortos) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
