[ale] Wireless toys?

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

It depends on what you mean by "diagnostics". There is Kismet
(http://www.kismetwireless.net/), Airfart (http://airfart.sf.net/),
and Wavemon (http://freshmeat.net/projects/wavemon/) [my favorite minus a
feature]. But, if you just want to figure out signal strengths, I find
the Gnome wireless monitor applet to be sufficient.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:44:48AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
>   I've got a very small wireless setup at home for my wife's school work.
> I'm looking to pick up a CHEAP wireless card for a test laptop I have
> (may die any day) to play with.  Anyone know if this works with linux:
> 
> http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50284289&pfp=BROWSE
> 
> Are there any tools for doing wireless network diagnostics on Linux?  My
> church has a small wireless in some offices that's giving some very
> weird behavior and I was going to try and see if I could help trouble
> shoot it.

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