{"id":128,"date":"2004-01-23T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T23:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2004-01-23T23:31:12","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T23:31:12","slug":"wlan_woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/01\/23\/wlan_woes\/","title":{"rendered":"WLAN woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took my iBook to university for the first time to test the new 802.11g accesspoints and the WLAN stumblers for Mac OS X. The result was disappointing. I tried KisMAC, Macstumbler and iStubmler. None of them was able to discover the university&#8217;s WLAN, although I was connected to it. I guess this is because the Airport Extreme Card only works in passive mode, because it is a Broadcom chip. And Broadcom sucks regarding release of specs.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnother lack of MacOS X, I couldn&#8217;t find any information about Signal strengh and at what connection speed i am connected to the Accesspoint. On FreeBSD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=wicontrol\">wicontrol(8)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/cgi\/man.cgi?query=ifconfig\">ifconfig(8)<\/a> give me all the information I need. But I have found no equivalent on MacOS X.<br \/>\nThe ifconfig output looks really poor compared to FreeBSD&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<pre>\n# ifconfig en1\nen1: flags=8863&lt;UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST&gt; mtu 1500\ninet6 fe80::20a:95ff:fef7:1d4c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5\ninet 192.168.1.24 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255\nether 00:0a:95:f7:1d:4c\nmedia: autoselect status: active\nsupported media: autoselect\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took my iBook to university for the first time to test the new 802.11g accesspoints and the WLAN stumblers for Mac OS X. The result was disappointing. I tried KisMAC, Macstumbler and iStubmler. None of them was able to discover the university&#8217;s WLAN, although I was connected to it. I guess this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/01\/23\/wlan_woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WLAN woes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}