Last month I used NetStumbler under Windows to search for wireless access points in my travels. This month I gave a Linux-based alternative a spin. AirTraf is a basic site survey tool that looks for 802.11b access points and displays traffic . . .
Last month I used NetStumbler under Windows to search for wireless access points in my travels. This month I gave a Linux-based alternative a spin. AirTraf is a basic site survey tool that looks for 802.11b access points and displays traffic statistics. I downloaded AirTraf from Elixar.com and decompressed the .tar.gz file. When I ran the make command in the AirTraf directory, I got a long list of parse errors from the ethtool.h file. By editing /usr/local/include/wireless.h and commenting out the include directive for ethtool.h I was able to run make and make install successfully.

I invoked AirTraf from the command line on an IBM ThinkPad T22 running Mandrake Linux 9.1, with a Xircom CWE1100 CreditCard Wireless Ethernet adapter. In order to run, AirTraf needs a window at least 120 characters wide and 45 characters high, so I had to adjust the Konsole window settings and specify a custom size.

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