Which WLAN Programs?

Hi all,

Just received my uConsole with CM4 module and also got the Hackergadgets AIO package.

I assembled all together and installed the latest Trixie image, all works fine so far.

Exept that audio wouldnt work at first in SDR++ (which i fixed) and the included lexar sd card gave smoke signals after putting it in for the third time.

Its broken now but fortunately did not damage the main board.

Its not a specific uConsole question but i was not able to find any software for scanning and analyzing wifi channels etc.

I just would like to have a tool which shows a good overview over all ssids, which channels they use and how the signal strength is.

Any idea which program i could use ?

Thanks!

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Not exactly what you’re looking for, but I like ‘wavemon’ for testing WiFi reception.

I would agree that aircrack-ng is not what i am looking for.

But waveman is quite okay… this kind of program with a nice GUI :upside_down_face:

I tried to install kismet but i dont get it to show anything… probably something is not supported.

The aircrack-ng tools do exactly what you mentioned: showing a good overview over all ssids, which channels they use and how the signal strength is.

Aircrack-ng looked for me like a command line tool, without a GUI.

Maybe i am wrong but dont know how to do it… will have alook again tomorrow.

I checked aircrack-ng again… it does not run on my uconsole because the chipset “broadcom 43430” does not support monitor mode.

I found a working wifi scanner with a graphical user interface… linssid.

kismet will require a wifi adapter with monitor mode.

It is possible to get into monitor mode with the broadcom chip when using the nexmon driver.

Only on Kali linux i was able to install the driver but neither kismet nor sparrow-wifi will install without errors. So i guess i have to stick with linssid.

Nexmon has always been a touch flaky. Sometimes it’ll work, sometimes it’ll just lock up, but looks like it’s still working.