[kismac] Probescans differ on MacBook and MacBookPro
- From: Lars Scheithauer <larsscheithauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:28:37 +0200
good evening, everyone!
First post to the list! A friend and I just got kismac to run
passively on a MacBook Pro and a MacBook (non-Pro), thanks to the
latest SVN-release (and you guys of course). So we started poking
around and simultanously scanned from the same location to see which
antenna is better[1]. However, we saw another huge difference: the
MacBookPro saw someone probing our network, while the MacBook did not
show any probe. Both were running in passive-mode and working, since
the MacBook shows some normal networks, too.
So we compared our two cards via the System Profiler, and both were
the same[2][3], with one difference: The MacBook is from germany
while the MacBookPro is from the US - which is where the cards
differ. We have the same Kismac-versions (svn r203, compiled on the
MacBook, application copied over to the MacBookPro). So, since the
cards seem to be the same (according to the id), is there a huge
difference between an US-card and a european-card? Anyone with a mac
to scan passively and another box to send the needed probes, who
could test and confirm that?
Another thing that bugs me: When the probe stopped, we tried to
verify our suspicion. So the MacBook was set to scan actively and the
MacBookPro passively. However, no probes showed up. Is this after all
just a glitch in the driver?
Last point: Our wirelessrouter is jumping between two channels (which
it shouldn't). We also experience some connectionproblems from time
to time. Is this something that happens due to reflections and
doublesignals through walls and other disturbances, so that the
frequency changes?
-- Lars
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[1] it's the MacBooks, in case you wonder.
[2] MacBookPro:
Drahtlose Karte: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x86)
Funktionsbereich der Karte: U.S.A.
Firmware-Version der Karte: 0.1.27
[3] MacBook:
Drahtlose Karte: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x86)
Funktionsbereich der Karte: Weltweit
Firmware-Version der Karte: 0.1.27
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