Re: "ifconfig wpi0 list scan" - ?

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Leonardo Taccari
<leonardo1990%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:22:35AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> I've never gotten 'list scan' to do anything useful.  Exactly what
>> happens tends to vary.  On rare occasions, I get the access point list
>> I'm looking for, but not very often.
> I've got the same problem with a ath(4) device (I run NetBSD 5.0_BETA)
> on a Eee PC 900.
>
> As a workaround to show access ponts I use net/kismet.
>
I had the same problem until I found that wlanctl(8) was able to give
me the list of found AP. Seems that some bits are broken with wiconfig
(never tried ifconfig's "list scan").

 - Arnaud