AP Scanning detection

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:38:27AM +1000, Patrick Cole wrote:
> Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:36:19PM -0500, Paul Gonin wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am wondering if there is any possibility to detect wireless nodes 
> > doing AP scanning (e.g. using iwlist if scanning technique in WE14) or 
> > if it is totally 'silencious'.
> 
> If you use mwavelan_cs (a modified version of lucent's wavelan2_cs) it
> supports the ap scan feature of the card through wireless extensions.
> 
> Google for it and thou shalt find.

ANd there are some patches on Jean Tourrilhes pages for the orinoco
driver.  I do plan to merge them quite soon, but they need some
porting to the latest orinoco version.


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