Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Macstumbler, KisMac, Etc.

[Robert F. <rl...@ea...>]

On Jan 22, 2004, at 11:05 PM, 
wir...@li... wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:36:22 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Re: Macstumbler, KisMac, Etc
> From: Robert Peirce <bo...@pe...>
> To: Wireless Driver Support 
> <wir...@li...>
>>
>>> From: Dale Steele <dts...@ma...>
>>> Subject: [Wirelessdriver-support] Macstumbler, KisMac, Etc
>>>
>>> I'm running the wireless driver on my powerbook wallstreet running OS
>>> x 10.28. Everything seems fine and I've just returned from MacWorld
>>> where I got the idea that I should check out macstumbler or kismac to
>>> see what I've been missing.
>>> Macstumbler doesn't seem to recognize my card, a farallon skyline,
>>> and kismac does but tells me the driver has a flaw that it has to
>>> patch if I want to run that application. I don't think I need to mess
>>> with things that badly but would like to hear what others are doing
>>> with a similar setup.
>>>
>>
>> I've found two other wifi detectors. iStumbler is a good alternative 
>> to your two. I doubt all their low signal strength figures though. 
>> Nowadays I use "AP Grapher" at home to test signal/noise et al.
>
> These seem only to work on built-in (PowerBook) AirPort cards.  He 
> (and I) have third-party cards.
>
>

Here they work fine with WaveLAN Gold and Silver cards when the latter 
are working right.

But, completely fed up with this whole issue, early this week I ordered 
a Buffalo AirStation G54 pc card. Supposedly it's just for Windows, but 
five minutes after the WS2 detected its presence, the laptop was 
finally online again via our AEBS wireless LAN, with my having added no 
drivers at all. X28 thinks it's an Airport card. (Airport 3.1.1 is 
installed.)

And, so far, while iStumbler 0.8.3 always crashes on startup and AP 
Grapher doesn't work quite right, both MacStumbler and KisMAC (no 
driver patching here) work well with the reasonably-priced Buffalo. 
Relief at last.

Bob F