Ath0, netgear WG311T problem. [SOLVED]
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Thu May 11 07:31:27 PDT 2006
Kaspars Bankovskis wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 07:52:46 +0100
> Yann Golanski <yann at kierun.org> wrote:
>
>> Many thank indeed, that did indeed solve the problem.
>>
>> Now, all I need to do is to use some encryption and some find some
>> monitoring software to give me signal strength and things like that.
>> Any recommendations on either?
>
> in Gnome desktop there is that small applet called Network Monitor, i
> use it to see signal strength on my atheros card.
> just to see available networks "ifconfig ath0 scan" is just fine.
>
Note that ifconfig ath0 scan will _initiate_ a scan. To view the
current results in the cache use
ifconfig ath0 list scan
Beware the cache contents are timed out and the current system does not
do background scanning so if the cache is empty you'll need to manually
force a scan to be done. But doing this will disassociate the station
from the ap until after the scan is completed.
Sam
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