Looking for Linux Equivalent Program
Michael Butash
michael at butash.net
Thu Jun 20 00:50:44 MST 2013
I use inssider on my tablet for quickie survey data, it looks similar to
wifi analyzer and is free too. Either is probably good in a pinch, and
then some.
I bought a spectrum analyzer, a metageek dbx, that unfortunately has
most investment of features in windoze software, but kismet has a side
project spectools to get basic readings out of it graphically as well
for linux. For the windoze software, I feed the device into virtual box
on an xp instance along with a wifi nic, and this gives me most all the
functionality of both worlds.
Mapping though, I didn't see much about the one wifiscanandmap vs.
something like ekahau or airmagnet survey suites. Oh yeah, their main
site was dead then too which didn't help me wanting to bother get
working. Of course the commercial tools are a good 5-10k for the tools,
require windoze, and still come with quirks to use, but do what you
generally need, which is record and display overlays of the traffic
adequately.
If wifiscanandmap can, I'll definitely check it out again. Otherwise I'm
just gonna get my company to buy me airmagnet suites at some point. :)
I was hoping there was something for rtls location tracking in linux,
but there were only a few abandoned projects out there. Wifi mapping
suites like airwave are only so accurate without rtls, but rtls is much
nicer for realtime mapping accuracy, such as rfid tracking of .11 tags.
-mb
On 06/19/2013 08:01 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> This "might" be better after looking at the comments...I use it, and it
> does not "map", but does tell me what is available and how strong the
> signal is, and the SSID:
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ
> ..
>
> At 03:43 PM 6/19/2013, James Finstrom wrote:
>> looks like this android app does this....
>>
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hogdex.WifiMapMakerFree
>> Wifi Map makerÂ
>> DISCLAIMER: Haven't tried it.
>>
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>>
>> *ಠ_ಠ*
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>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, James Finstrom
>> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com <mailto:jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Seems like something easily done in python. Â This does require
>> gps so thinking it would be better as an android app.
>>
>> James Finstrom
>> Rhino Equipment
>> http://rhinoequipment.com
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment
>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/RhinoEquipment
>>
>>
>>
>> *ಠ_ಠ*
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>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Lisa,
>>
>> I did not try it in WINE. I am just enough of a bigot to
>> look for a pure Linux solution first since I do not have a
>> work project I need to complete.
>>
>> https://github.com/cyberpython/WifiScanAndMap seems to
>> indicate something far from having a polished GUI and looks to
>> be at a significantly lower map resolution (though worth a
>> look if nothing else turns up).
>>
>> The Meraki FAQ (
>> http://meraki.cisco.com/products/wireless/wifi-mapper#faq )
>> says "A: WiFi Mapper requires Java support and does not
>> currently support Linux."
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> Yep on the corner on the market. Makes one thonk it could be
>> a great opportunity for a FOSS project. :)
>>
>>
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>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Michael Butash
>> <michael at butash.net <mailto:michael at butash.net>> wrote:
>>
>> I've been working on a wireless project for months, and
>> looked around for things oss like heatmapping, rtls
>> function, etc, and there's nothing too well baked to use
>> production-wise aside from some half-baked, minimally
>> existing projects on sourceforge.
>>
>> Seems commercial software like Aruba Airwave, Cisco
>> WLS/Prime, Ekahau, etc have the lock on things from that
>> perspective.
>>
>> -mb
>>
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>> On 06/19/2013 09:00 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>
>> I ran across this article:
>>
>> http://www.howtogeek.com/165614/how-to-create-a-wi-fi-heatmap-for-network-analysis-better-coverage-and-geek-cred-galore/
>>
>>
>> which shows doing a very nifty wifi map of your space.
>> Â Unfortunately it
>> uses a windows only program from Ekahau called
>> HeatMap. Â I did a little
>> web searching for a Linux equivalent program but have
>> not found anything
>> that included the mapping function. Â Does anyone know
>> of one?
>>
>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
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