AP Radar, a wireless client manager for linux/GTK+, has made a new release. Version 0.50, released January 10th, 2004, adds more robust wireless driver support, configuration options, and a better looking user interface.
AP Radar exists to make wireless networking easy to use. Its a wireless client manager with basic net-stumbling capability. Its written in C++ for linux 2.4/2.6 using the GTK+ toolkit. AP Radar uses the "wireless scanning" support included in wireless extensions for linux V14 (introduced in kernel 2.4.20). The airo and hostap drivers are known to work with wireless scanning. The orinoco driver needs a patch. To test your system for compatibility, run "iwlist eth1 scanning" where eth1 is your wireless interface. If you get information about an access point or even "no data returned", you can use AP Radar. If you get "Operation not supported", then the driver in use does not support wireless scanning.
http://apradar.sourceforge.net
Don Park
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