Understanding Wi-Fi Initial Communication Between Device and Access Point
Wi-Fi communication between a device and an access point (AP) begins with a series of steps to … Read more
WiFi Driver
Ubuntu doesn’t detect WiFi Access Point
Recently I came across very different problem when I moved to a place where there was few … Read more
Understanding wireless beacon packet ( captured using pcap API’s )
As per Wikipedia, Beacon frame is one of the management frames in IEEE 802.11 based WLANs. It contains all the … Read more
How to Enable and Disable Wireless / WiFi from command line ?
Rfkill is a tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices. We use “rfkill list” command as below … Read more
How to Turn ON and Turn OFF Bluetooth from command line ?
Rfkill is a tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices. Using “rfkill list” command we first check … Read more
Simple wifi packet sniffer to capture every packet received on wlan0 interface
This program captures the network packets received on wifi interface. If you don’t know which interface to … Read more
sniffex – C program to Capture wifi packets using libpcap
libpcap provides functions for user-level packet capture, used in low-level network monitoring. Following program captures the packets … Read more
How to Scan and display list of available wireless networks ?
LINSSID – linssid is a graphical wireless scanner, LinSSID displays locally receivable 802.11 wireless attach points and ad … Read more
How to Connect Wi-Fi from Linux Terminal Using Nmcli
nmcli is a command-line tool for controlling NetworkManager and reporting network status. It can be utilized as … Read more