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05.02.12

A Simple WiFi-Scanner for Linux

linuxwifipythonThe current issue of the c't magazine features articles about improving the wifi signal at home. They cover a Windows tool called inSSIDer, which shows the wifi singal levels on the channels 0-13.

However, there's no such tool for linux. I came up with a simple solution in python, which parses the output of iwlist scan. This file is tested on Ubuntu 11.04, this one runs on Ubuntu 11.10. Both scripts can be executed like this: watch 'sudo iwlist scan | python wifi-graph-*.py' This is a quick hack, but it works great for me. Feel free to improve the scripts!