[Fwd: Re: [nycbug-talk] graphical wi-fi front end]

[Tim Jacques]

hello all..

thank you for the responses: ike , pete , ah pook.

so far i have found:

istumbler- mac only.

wistumbler2- an x based ap detection utility. nice and simple. it has 
been a little nervous on my system though.. it core dumped a few times.
other than that it detects accurately.

ap-utils- it looks like it is for configuring ap's. not detecting and 
associating.

bsd-airtools- contains an ap detection utility called dstumbler. with 
the (-s) option it works well with my (ath0) card. without the (-s) 
option it gives an ioctl error and halts.

kismet- with the radiotap_fbsd_b capture source i am able to capture 11b 
   and 11g. it seems to play nice with ethereal.. i like it....

kwifimanager and kwireless- according to everything i have found so far, 
they are linux only. ugh.....

i found a mention in the freebsd-ports archive about someone doing some 
work on kde wifi tools. i sent him a email. hopefully it will be fruitful.

i guess i am looking for something like kwifimanager (with or without 
X.)  a detect, select, associate, and acquire an address utility.

any other thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
i will report back anything i hear about the kde wifi tools.
thank you again everybody..
have a great day..

tim..


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] graphical wi-fi front end
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:15:03 -0400
From: Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org>
To: Tim Jacques <netmantej at gmail.com>
CC: nycbug talk list <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
References: <425DAA42.3030706 at gmail.com>

Hi Tim, All,

On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:24 PM, Tim Jacques wrote:

> good afternoon,
>
> has anyone come across a graphical front end for displaying and  
> selecting wi-fi ap's..
> i am looking for something similar to the utility that comes netgear  
> wg511t driver disk,
> ( win only unfortunately.) a point and click, detect and select  
> utility in kde would be prime.
> i am running: freebsd 5.3, kde 3.3, netgear wg511t (ath0).

Hrm.  On a mac, I use iStumbler- which is free/open and I understand
based on NetStumbler.  Not sure about FreeBSD options.

I found this in the ports collection searching for 'stumbler',
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?
query=stumbler&stype=all&release=5-STABLE%2Fi386

--
Also, there's ap-utils, bsd-airtools, KisMet- perhaps other folks here
have experience with these tools...

>
> thank you..
> have a great day..
> tim..

Rocket-
.ike