Friday, April 3, 2009

Simple Command to Search for a Known ESSID

I was looking for a simple way to scan for a specific ESSID and display all of the information about it. So with some help I came up with this.

pyramid:/# iwlist ath1 scan |grep linksys -B1 -A8

Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:F8:EF:XX:XX
ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=23/94 Signal level=-72 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
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Cell 35 - Address: 00:14:BF:3A:XX:XX
ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=2/94 Signal level=-93 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100

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