8 Feb
2014
8 Feb
'14
8:07 p.m.
On Saturday 08 February 2014 12:09:15 Chris Green wrote:
Are there any tools specifically for scanning/characterising WiFi signals and/or are there any replacements for Network Manager that make handling WiFi connections easier?
You could do a scan from command line (as root):
iw DEVICE scan
where DEVICE is your wifi interface name, most likely wlan0. You can see your interfac(es) with "iw dev". Look in the Interface section for each phyX.
The output of the scan can look a bit complicated, but you would be most interested in the WPS, WPA and RSN sections of the output.
As an alternative, you can sniff the air traffic with wireshark on a given wifi channel and then look at the fields in detail from the GUI.
Cheers, Thomas