Archive for the ‘Wireless’ Category.
So the other day when i was using wifi-select (awesome tool) to connect to a friends hot-spot, i realized “hey! this would be great as an openbox pipe menu.” i’m fairly decent in bash and i knew both netcfg and wifi-select were in bash so why not rewrite it that way?
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Iwspy is used to set a list of addresses to monitor in a wireless network interface and to read back quality of link information for each of those. This information is the same as the one available in /proc/net/wireless : quality of the link, signal strength and noise level.This information is updated each time a new packet is received, so each address of the list adds some overhead in the driver.
iwevents is yet another linux utility which helps track any events related to the Wireless Interfaces on the network. iwevents can monitor for events related to the settings of the interfaces itself. For instance, a change to the encryption key, ESSID etc done via iwconfig command or events related to the hardware itself like the device joining a new Wireless network, scan completion (using iwlist), packet dropped, driver event, node registration, node expiration.
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You can do it manually from the command line, assuming you have network tools for linux installed. Know the name of your wireless connection: mine is ath0, so I’ll use it in this example, but you have to replace it when you type these commands with the name of your wireless connection. Note that most or all of these commands require you to be in root, so use sudo or su, or login to root. First startup the connection with ifconfig:
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