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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Txpower

« on: January 07, 2005, 03:33:41 pm »

i havnt noticed anything strange.
 i dont have a whole lot of experience to know, but i have found hundreds of APs with my c860 and ambicom card in my bag while biking. i was actually pretty surprised because i thaught it wouldnt pick up much.
i found 80 on my 10 ride home from work.
i found my results to be consistant with what i would expect from the area based on past laptop scans (although those were with netstumbler, so kismet should discover more because it sees those not broadcasting ssid)
anyways, i dont know.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Txpower

« on: January 07, 2005, 01:31:30 pm »

sorry, i dont have any ideas about why you are unable to set the txpower, when i get home i can try the command you specified on my ambicom.

but i fail to see how adjusting your transmit power would have any effect on kismet's sensitivity in detecting APs.  kismet does passive detection, as far as i understand it, your card need not even send out any packets when your are running kismet in the detection process.

i suppose changing the txpower on a card that supports it could also change the recieving sensitivity, but it would seem to me that this would all depend on the specifics of the card firmware/chipset.