[MLB-WIRELESS] Cabletron Cards - Laptop - Debian - Range

James Robertson orlock at central.warehouse.net
Thu Jun 13 14:39:22 EST 2002


I noticed that my laptop+enterasys card with nothing hooked up to it could 
pick up 7 or 8 AP's or whatever running Kismet, when left sitting on my 
desk for 8 hours or so.

Running netstumbler under Win98SE, picked up nothing.

James

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jason Clarke wrote:

> 
> This is like, weird..
> 
> Got a Dell Inspiron 4100 with one of the $50 cards in it.
> 
> I found that at my desk with Win2k I could baaaaareeeellllyyyy get a signal
> from an AP around the area. Maybe a signal of 10-12 in Netstumbler.
> 
> I'm dual booting with Debian, 2.4.18 and found that when I cat
> /proc/net/wireless the signal / noise ration is more like 15-20.
> 
> Is this just the measurements of the various OS's comming into play, or is
> there some other explanation??
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -----------------------------
> Jason Clarke
> 
> <sig removed :-)>
> 
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