WiFi Access Point Discovery Tools ?

[Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.]

!Have you tried
!
!wicontrol wi0 -l

Sorry about the earlier note -- the coffee hadn't kicked in yet...

wicontrol wi0 -l

for either card reports "0 stations"
with one powered & sitting less than 4 meters away.

A quick look at the man page for wicontrol(1)
further suggested "wicontrol wiX -L".

For the Lucent-based MiniPCI card (wi0) we get:

NIC serial number:                      [  ]
Station name:                           [ FreeBSD WaveL ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [  ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
Channel list:                           [ 7ff ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 10 ]
Current channel:                        [ 65535 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 0 0 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Process 802.11b Frame:                  [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card:             [ 0 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:02:2d:xx:xx:xx ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 0 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 0 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2312 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ Off ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]
Available APs:
0 stations:
SSID                        BSSID         Chan     SN  S  N  Intrvl Capinfo

For the Prism2-based PCCARD (wi1) we get:

NIC serial number:                      [  ]
Station name:                           [ FreeBSD WaveL ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [  ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
Channel list:                           [ 7ff ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 11 ]
Current channel:                        [ 65535 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 0 0 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Process 802.11b Frame:                  [ Off ]
Intersil-Prism2 based card:             [ 1 ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:90:d1:xx:xx:xx ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 0 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 0 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2312 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ Off ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]
Available APs:

So, what's up with access point discovery in 5.3-R ?
--
Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.	<mailto:rafege at mail.com>
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