Re: Utilities for Determining Signal Strength

Also, I recommend bsd-airtools[1]. Although it provides more functionality
than you need, it will allow you to monitor WiFi signal strength in a
variety of ways. Taken from its documentation:

bsd-airtools is a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 
802.11b auditing. Namely, it currently contains a bsd-based wep cracking 
application, called dweputils (as well as kernel patches for NetBSD, 
OpenBSD, and FreeBSD). It also contains a curses based ap detection 
application similar to netstumbler (dstumbler) that can be used to detect 
wireless access points and connected nodes, view signal to noise graphs, 
and interactively scroll through scanned ap's and view statistics for each. 
It also includes a couple other tools to provide a complete toolset for 
making use of all 14 of the prism2 debug modes as well as do basic analysis 
of the hardware-based link-layer protocols provided by prism2's monitor 
debug mode."

References:

[1] http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html

--jbl

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:55:20AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:29:49PM -0400, The Jetman wrote:
> >     Seeking a console utility for monitoring Wi-Fi signal strength.  I 
> > really don't want to use X, but if something serviceable is avail under 
> > X, I'll take it.
> 
> /usr/ports/net/wmwave
> /usr/sbin/wicontrol
> 
> BMS
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