Comments on: Find Wireless Networks Around Your MAC http://techie-buzz.com/internet-tools/find-wireless-networks-around-your-mac.html Know your technology head on Fri, 25 May 2012 13:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gushttp://techie-buzz.com/internet-tools/find-wireless-networks-around-your-mac.html/comment-page-1#comment-38910 Gus Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:11:54 +0000 http://techie-buzz.com/?p=4507#comment-38910 While mostly a pc guy, my employment took me into the apple world once again (My first was an Apple][+ ) and since macstumbler stopped working when I swapped my mac from an ibook to a macbook.. For the past year, I've been been using <a href="http://trac.kismac-ng.org/" rel="nofollow">KisMac</a> which works quite well.* Reveals hidden / cloaked / closed SSIDs * Shows logged in clients (with MAC Addresses, IP addresses and signal strengths) * Mapping and GPS support * Can draw area maps of network coverage * PCAP import and export * Support for 802.11b/g * Different attacks against encrypted networks * Deauthentication attacks * AppleScript-able * Kismet drone support (capture from a Kismet drone)Supported hardware chipsets ¶* Apple AirPort and AirPort Extreme (dependent upon Apple's drivers) * Lucent Hermes I & II (Orinoco 2 and 11 Mbit) * Intersil Prism 2, 2.5, 3 in PCMCIA and USB devices * Cisco Aironet (with older 4.xx firmware) * Intersil PrismGT * Atheros PCMCIA * Ralink rt2570 and rt73 USB devices * Realtek RTL8187L USB (such as the Alfa AWUS036H)Blue Skies! While mostly a pc guy, my employment took me into the apple world once again (My first was an Apple][+
) and since macstumbler stopped working when I swapped my mac from an ibook to a macbook.. For the past year, I’ve been been using KisMac which works quite well.

* Reveals hidden / cloaked / closed SSIDs
* Shows logged in clients (with MAC Addresses, IP addresses and signal strengths)
* Mapping and GPS support
* Can draw area maps of network coverage
* PCAP import and export
* Support for 802.11b/g
* Different attacks against encrypted networks
* Deauthentication attacks
* AppleScript-able
* Kismet drone support (capture from a Kismet drone)

Supported hardware chipsets ¶

* Apple AirPort and AirPort Extreme (dependent upon Apple’s drivers)
* Lucent Hermes I & II (Orinoco 2 and 11 Mbit)
* Intersil Prism 2, 2.5, 3 in PCMCIA and USB devices
* Cisco Aironet (with older 4.xx firmware)
* Intersil PrismGT
* Atheros PCMCIA
* Ralink rt2570 and rt73 USB devices
* Realtek RTL8187L USB (such as the Alfa AWUS036H)

Blue Skies!

]]> By: gautamhttp://techie-buzz.com/internet-tools/find-wireless-networks-around-your-mac.html/comment-page-1#comment-35965 gautam Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:59:21 +0000 http://techie-buzz.com/?p=4507#comment-35965 I don't know about others, but my macbook normally takes ages to see wireless networks, upto a minute after I click on the airport icon. This gets worse if there are a lot of ad-hoc networks.And another common problem was thateach time my system is powered back from sleep, the wireless connection is always off. I wished it could be automatically re-established, without me having to click on the wireless icon on the menu bar.This however can be solved, whenever we go on any network, by selecting "Join most recently used available network and checking remember network passord".Again my MAC is not the new age one yet, so can't say if it's the same with others :)I'm looking forward to see what macstumblers have in store ! I don’t know about others, but my macbook normally takes ages to see wireless networks, upto a minute after I click on the airport icon. This gets worse if there are a lot of ad-hoc networks.

And another common problem was thateach time my system is powered back from sleep, the wireless connection is always off. I wished it could be automatically re-established, without me having to click on the wireless icon on the menu bar.

This however can be solved, whenever we go on any network, by selecting
“Join most recently used available network and checking remember network passord”.

Again my MAC is not the new age one yet, so can’t say if it’s the same with others :)

I’m looking forward to see what macstumblers have in store !

]]> By: BloggerDailyhttp://techie-buzz.com/internet-tools/find-wireless-networks-around-your-mac.html/comment-page-1#comment-35959 BloggerDaily Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:57:59 +0000 http://techie-buzz.com/?p=4507#comment-35959 gosh. new and awesome feature. cool! gosh. new and awesome feature. cool!

]]> By: Glass Beadshttp://techie-buzz.com/internet-tools/find-wireless-networks-around-your-mac.html/comment-page-1#comment-35956 Glass Beads Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:18:14 +0000 http://techie-buzz.com/?p=4507#comment-35956 huh? is it not automatic with mac? i never thought about it like that for a MAC PC. huh? is it not automatic with mac? i never thought about it like that for a MAC PC.

]]> By: Michael Auliahttp://techie-buzz.com/internet-tools/find-wireless-networks-around-your-mac.html/comment-page-1#comment-35955 Michael Aulia Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:42:46 +0000 http://techie-buzz.com/?p=4507#comment-35955 I never know that MAC is not capable of doing this before :) I never know that MAC is not capable of doing this before :)

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