wicontrol man page

[Ian Langworth]

On 18.Oct.2004 12:50PM +1300, Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net wrote:

> wicontrol -i iface -L list all the AP available, and wicontrol
> -i iface -l will gi've you the stations connected.

Right, that's what the manual page says. However, this doesn't
look like the list of all APs available:

    $ wicontrol -i ndis0 -L
    NIC serial number:                      [  ]
    Station name:
    [ omni.langworth.com ]
    SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ Unit 21 ]
    Current netname (SSID):                 [ Unit 21 ]
    Desired netname (SSID):                 [ Unit 21 ]
    Current BSSID:                          [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
    Channel list:                           [ 3fff ]
    IBSS channel:                           [ 1 ]
    ...
    WEP encryption:                         [ Off ]
    TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
    Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]
    Available APs:
    wicontrol: SIOCSWAVELAN: Operation not permitted

Instead, it looks like the AP that I'm conencted to, but this sure doesn't:

    $ wicontrol -i ndis0 -l
    8 stations:
    ap[0]:
        netname (SSID):                 [ linksys ]
        BSSID:                          [ 00:06:25:e8:1c:13 ]
        Channel:                        [ 1 ]
        Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]:  [ 80 / 80 / 0 ]
                                [dBm]:  [ 80 / -69 / -149 ]
        BSS Beacon Interval [msec]:     [ 0 ]
        Capinfo:                        [ ]
        DataRate [Mbps]:                [ 11 ]
    ...
    ap[7]:
        netname (SSID):                 [ Unit 19 ]
        BSSID:                          [ 00:0f:66:b9:6e:21 ]
        Channel:                        [ 6 ]
        Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]:  [ 65 / 65 / 0 ]
                                [dBm]:  [ 65 / -84 / -149 ]
        BSS Beacon Interval [msec]:     [ 0 ]
        Capinfo:                        [ WEP ]

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Ian Langworth
Project Guerrilla
Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science