wavemon is a curses based monitor...

joelja

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Mike Kershaw wrote:

> The simple thing to do is:
> 
> 'watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless'
> 
> that'll display the contents once per second and you can use them to find
> the strongest position.
> 
> There are some GTK-based monitors but they escape me at the moment.
> 
> I plan to toss a (probably perl) script in the kismet extra's to make a
> gps xml file while associated with a network (for drawing site maps with
> more reliable signal levels than rfmon provides) but that doesn't sound
> like what you need.
> 
> -m
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:52:10AM -0800, Greg Herlein wrote:
> > I'm looking for linux software that can "sniff" like kismet
> > does, but aimed more towards real-time finding of signal
> > strength, etc as opposed to traditional sniffing.
> > 
> > Specifically, I want to point a cantenna at a remote site and
> > want to center my beam.  That kind of thing.
> > 
> > Is there something for linux?  Or do I need to write one?
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
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