Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
The aircrack-ng http://www.aircrack-ng.org/ suit contains a utility that will list AP's. It never ceases to amaze me how many open networks there still are out there, that and loads of people still use WEP. Darrin. On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.commle%2bs...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know tool to list all local wifi access points with their channel numbers and encryption types? Preferably command line (but I'm running Gnome with network manager on a Debian system if there is something that fits in with that). Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
darrin hodges wrote: The aircrack-ng http://www.aircrack-ng.org/ suit contains a utility that will list AP's. Sorry, any program whose getting started tutorial [0] has a first step of Determine the chipset in your wireless card is going in the wrong direction. I have absolutely no interest in cracking other peoples wifi. What I'd like to do if figure out which channel in my local area is the least congested so I can park my AP on that channel. Erik [0] http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=getting_started) -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
Who said anything about 'cracking' other people's wifi? Airodump-ng is an audit utility and is similar to kismet, it will tell you all the AP's in the area including the channel that they are on. The best way to determine if it works is simply to try it, I did not bother about working out the chipset. You'll find that most of them work with either kismet or airodump-ng. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.commle%2bs...@mega-nerd.com wrote: darrin hodges wrote: The aircrack-ng http://www.aircrack-ng.org/ suit contains a utility that will list AP's. Sorry, any program whose getting started tutorial [0] has a first step of Determine the chipset in your wireless card is going in the wrong direction. I have absolutely no interest in cracking other peoples wifi. What I'd like to do if figure out which channel in my local area is the least congested so I can park my AP on that channel. Erik [0] http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=getting_started) -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: darrin hodges wrote: The aircrack-ng http://www.aircrack-ng.org/ suit contains a utility that will list AP's. Sorry, any program whose getting started tutorial [0] has a first step of Determine the chipset in your wireless card is going in the wrong direction. I have absolutely no interest in cracking other peoples wifi. What I'd like to do if figure out which channel in my local area is the least congested so I can park my AP on that channel. * get a windows box with a wireless card * grab inssider * run inssider * done/done. Adrian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
Hello all, On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:15:55 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote: I have absolutely no interest in cracking other peoples wifi. What I'd like to do if figure out which channel in my local area is the least congested so I can park my AP on that channel. If you have an Android phone then there is a great app that does everything you have asked for plus some more. http://www.android.com/market/#app=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer It even has a mode that will suggest the best channel for you. Erik [0] http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=getting_started) -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- Regards Mick Pollard ( lunix ) BOFH Excuse of the day: Fatal Firmware Anomaly -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SyPy Oct 7th: Trending/monitoring world tour - Alan Milligan Mark Rees open
NOTE: Change of venue. Details and RSVP http://anyvite.com/0fbgnt6lnq Slightly different format this time. We'll be looking at what happens once your deployment goes live and what tools can help. 6:15: Arrive - Anchor Systems, Level 4, 81 York Street 6:30: Zenoss - Alan Milligan 7:00: Eddie - Mark Rees 7:30 Open lightning talks for other solutions, cacti, munin, nagios etc. Register below. 8:00 Social networking and beers and dinner at PJ Obriens Zenoss: This presentation will provide a whirlwind demonstration of Zenoss's features and then concentrate upon how to write your own ZenPack/ Python module extension Alan Milligan is the principal technical architect of Last Bastion Network Solutions in Australia. His background is in applications development and infrastructure in retail and investment banking. Alan is uniquely placed to present Zenoss because the open source architecture upon which it's based, Zope, has been the core of Last Bastion offerings for a decade. The EDDIE Tool: (http://code.google.com/p/eddie-tool/) is a systemmonitoring, security and performance analysis agent written 100% inPython. Its key features are portability, powerful configuration andease of expansion. Monitoring rules are just like Python expressions. Mark Rees is CTO at Century Software Other Tools Please considering doing a lightning talk on your favorite monitoring tool. Suggestions are on the RSVP form. Further Details: We will also have slots for 5 minute lightning talks. If you think its interesting and you're a pythonista then chances are we will to. Put together a few slides and bring it along. *RSVP: Please RSVP on Anyvite to get your name on the door* http://anyvite.com/0fbgnt6lnq Getting There: See the anyvite page for details Free free to join us at the pub after/instead. If have any problems call Dylan Jay on 0421477460 --- Dylan Jay Plone Solutions Manager. www.pretaweb.com P +612 80819071 M +61421477460 skype - dylan_jaytwitter - djay75 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
* get a windows box with a wireless card * grab inssider * run inssider * done/done. ... Yes that works. However, imho the windows part is a real turn off ;) You know kismet runs on a lot of os's ... http://www.kismetwireless.net/screenshot.shtml -- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.-- Wm. Shakespeare -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com writes: darrin hodges wrote: The aircrack-ng http://www.aircrack-ng.org/ suit contains a utility that will list AP's. Sorry, any program whose getting started tutorial [0] has a first step of Determine the chipset in your wireless card is going in the wrong direction. I have absolutely no interest in cracking other peoples wifi. What I'd like to do if figure out which channel in my local area is the least congested so I can park my AP on that channel. Cool. Don't forget that if you are using 2.4GHz there are *three* channels, no matter what the card says: only 1, 6, and 11 are non-overlapping, so you will get a performance hit from anything that crosses over between them. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010, dave b wrote: * get a windows box with a wireless card * grab inssider * run inssider * done/done. ... Yes that works. However, imho the windows part is a real turn off ;) Only if don't already have it installed. :) You know kismet runs on a lot of os's ... http://www.kismetwireless.net/screenshot.shtml .. but having to pick the right monitor mode for the right card just to get it to work was an absolute pain. I finally managed to get it working on my netbook w/ an atheros chipset; but it was fiddly. And I'm -hacking- on the wireless code at the moment. :) (I then just rebooted back into XP mode to run inssider, as all I wanted was RSSIs.) That said, Kismet is great if you want to do detailed wireless debugging. :) It just isn't easy. :) That (all) said, it wouldn't be hard to write a *NIX Inssider clone; it just uses the card-reported RSSI from channel scans. Kismet does a lot more and thus wants monitor/intercept/debugging modes (which is why it's fiddly.) adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $24/pm+GST entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook?
a daughter of a friend asked me if it's possible to run applications from a USB memory stick; I asked her what was it that she wants to run, she told me 'cygwin, to run some c code' I said 'why don't you boot your Acer netbook from a Linux on SD media now what is asking what Linux should she get ? so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on an Acer netbook ? I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook?
You could have a look at these http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/ http://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/ I have lxde on a asus eeepc. You can you use either fedora's liveusb creator or ubuntu's Unetbootin to create a bootable usb system. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: a daughter of a friend asked me if it's possible to run applications from a USB memory stick; I asked her what was it that she wants to run, she told me 'cygwin, to run some c code' I said 'why don't you boot your Acer netbook from a Linux on SD media now what is asking what Linux should she get ? so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on an Acer netbook ? I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Auto Reboot ADSL modem ??
Lately I have had my connection drop out late at night, which causes auto-download via JDownloader to fail with no internet connection message. I have JDownloader set to auto-reboot the modem from file hosters such as rapidshare ( for free downloads) and this will work fine normally. However, when I am using a paid-for premium account on a file hoster this does not occur. I am aware that my system can be set to auto-ping my connection on at a predetermined interval which is fine for just ensuring that my connection stays alive, and the modem can be rebooted via a script if the ping fails. However, if the system is working fine and downloading at max speed, the chances are that the ping will fail due to lack of band-width, which would then cause an unnecessary reboot of the modem. Is there a daemon/script/utility ( pref GUI) that can determine whether or not my machine has an active connection by checking my network connection on Gnome NetworkManager or such? I am using Mint 9 (Ubuntu 10.4 based). Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 05:18:47 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: a daughter of a friend asked me if it's possible to run applications from a USB memory stick; I asked her what was it that she wants to run, she told me 'cygwin, to run some c code' I said 'why don't you boot your Acer netbook from a Linux on SD media now what is asking what Linux should she get ? so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on an Acer netbook ? I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ? 'buntu's remix (and it really does not appeal to moi at all) does a pretty good job for the target market, my wife, my mother, so I'd be most tempted (Hey 'twas even easy to tame her eee to do the stuff I wanted, like I wanted) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook?
The main obstacle is WiFi, but I believe the Acer netbooks have a similar WiFi setup to the Asus eee, in which case Fedora 13 should do the trick. There is also a netbook version of Puppy Linux that I was able to activate WiFi with. Ubuntu 10.4 and Mint would not recognise the wireless card on my Asus eee 1005 despite my following several sets of complicated instructions. Nor would several other distros -- I seem to remember Moblin was one of them. If you use Windows on the netbook to download and install LinuxLive USB Creator, that makes it much easier to create and trial bootable USB sticks or cards -- http://www.linuxliveusb.com. Jon. On 05/10/10 08:18, Voytek Eymont wrote: a daughter of a friend asked me if it's possible to run applications from a USB memory stick; I asked her what was it that she wants to run, she told me 'cygwin, to run some c code' I said 'why don't you boot your Acer netbook from a Linux on SD media now what is asking what Linux should she get ? so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on an Acer netbook ? I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 05:18:47 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: a daughter of a friend asked me if it's possible to run applications from a USB memory stick; I asked her what was it that she wants to run, she told me 'cygwin, to run some c code' I said 'why don't you boot your Acer netbook from a Linux on SD media now what is asking what Linux should she get ? so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on an Acer netbook ? I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ? Just gave moblin a whirl. If anybody has anything complimentary to say I'd love to hear why and what. Thanks :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
On Tue, October 5, 2010 11:56 am, james wrote: I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ? Just gave moblin a whirl. If anybody has anything complimentary to say I'd love to hear why and what. Thanks :-) thanks, James I did, it booted OK, bluetooth didn't seem to work, but, WiFi did it looks quite nice but, I couldn't mount the HD, it said something like 'NTFS fs unknown' when I tried to 'mount -t auto /dev/sda...' also, how does one make such 'usb' booted to 'persists' reboots ? like, say, I want to install mc or gcc -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook?
On Tue, October 5, 2010 11:25 am, Jon Jermey wrote: The main obstacle is WiFi, but I believe the Acer netbooks have a similar WiFi setup to the Asus eee, in which case Fedora 13 should do the trick. There is also a netbook version of Puppy Linux that I was able to activate WiFi with. Ubuntu 10.4 and Mint would not recognise the wireless card on my Asus eee 1005 despite my following several sets of complicated instructions. Nor would several other distros -- I seem to remember Moblin was one of them. fwiw, both Ubuntu and Moblin found WiFi as is, no issues (neither seemed to find bluetooth, though. must check if it's enabled) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
Moblin has been discontinued and replaced with MeeGo. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Tue, October 5, 2010 11:56 am, james wrote: I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ? Just gave moblin a whirl. If anybody has anything complimentary to say I'd love to hear why and what. Thanks :-) thanks, James I did, it booted OK, bluetooth didn't seem to work, but, WiFi did it looks quite nice but, I couldn't mount the HD, it said something like 'NTFS fs unknown' when I tried to 'mount -t auto /dev/sda...' also, how does one make such 'usb' booted to 'persists' reboots ? like, say, I want to install mc or gcc -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
On Tue, October 5, 2010 12:29 pm, Tony \H.G\ Candito wrote: Moblin has been discontinued and replaced with MeeGo. I tried to d/l several times, all failed though, reading on related forums comment found were 'it's not quite completed' -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
On Tue, October 5, 2010 10:46 am, james wrote: 'buntu's remix (and it really does not appeal to moi at all) does a pretty good job for the target market, my wife, my mother, so I'd be most tempted (Hey 'twas even easy to tame her eee to do the stuff I wanted, like I wanted) James James, thanks it installed and booted from SD fine, WiFi works, can access NTFS Acer hardrive, all looks good (except bluetooth) how do I install say 'mc' ? 'sudo apt-get mc ' says not found how do install stuff to persist reboot ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Auto Reboot ADSL modem ??
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:33:08AM +1100, gonzo01 wrote: I am aware that my system can be set to auto-ping my connection on at a predetermined interval which is fine for just ensuring that my connection stays alive, and the modem can be rebooted via a script if the ping fails. However, if the system is working fine and downloading at max speed, the chances are that the ping will fail due to lack of band-width, which would then cause an unnecessary reboot of the modem. You could increase the timeout interval in the ping program; you could send several packets (and only decide the link is down if no replies are received); you could combine ping and counting the received bytes on the interface (if no responses received and no bytes received on the interface). Also PPP itself (assuming you are using ppp) can check that the other end of the connection is alive - and if not, will exit which would remove the default route. Nick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
On Tue, October 5, 2010 12:59 pm, Jake Anderson wrote: how do install stuff to persist reboot ? sudo apt-get install mc if you want to run it then just install the full thing to the SD card not the live image thing. ubu...@ubuntu:/etc$ sudo apt-get install mc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package mc I guess I need to configure some additional repositories ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook
On Tue, October 5, 2010 1:25 pm, Jake Anderson wrote: On 05/10/10 13:14, Voytek Eymont wrote: if you are running from the livecd you need to do and apt-get update first it is in universe, I don't know if that is turned on by default on a livecd Jake, thanks, works (and, in pretty colors, too, unlike on the NAS that it came up monochrome) if you can point me where do I look for info on how to install to SD media please do? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook?
Voytek, You might want to have a look at the new Zenwalk Live Edition to run on the netbook http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=117 It is fast and has a relatively small footprint in terms of both CPU and memory consumption (in the installed version it loads with 50 Mb of RAM in the init 3 mode).At the same it has most of the applications one would need for everyday use as well as the 2.6.33.4 kernel http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=107 Hope this may prove to be of use Regards Michael Primrose On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: now what she is asking what Linux should she get ? so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on an Acer netbook ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
