how to discover essid

penguinview · 07-11-2003, 05:31 PM

I have a laptop running Mandrake 9.1 and a Lucent Orinoco Wireless PCMCIA card. The card shows up in the system as eth0. What I would like to know is how to be able to detect what wireless networks are available to join. I am new to wireless. I do have the wireless tools installed and the iwconfig does work with the card.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
David

shellcode · 07-11-2003, 08:44 PM

you say you want to see what networks you can join:
www.remote-exploit.org

Wellenreiter should show you what networks you can join and their ssid and stuff...

of course you are using it for a legitemate purpose

seabass55 · 07-11-2003, 09:08 PM

And don't forget http://airsnort.shmoo.com/ after that :-)

Cbass

shellcode · 07-11-2003, 09:15 PM

might as well direct him to www.wardriving.com

lol

have fun!

mrant · 07-14-2003, 12:46 PM

Once you have discovered a wireless network, how would I connect to it using iwconfig? I've found many an open network, local hotspots at airports and cafes, but had no luck connecting.