iwconfig for OSX ??
Hello,
I own an iBook G4 and am wondering if there exists a tool to view which 802.11 (g or b) base station my built-in Airport Extreme is connected to. As an example, with Linux ... I can run the command iwconfig and it'll spit out the following:
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wholemilk" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:D0:26:36
Bit Rate:36Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=17/94 Signal level=-78 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:12483 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1872 Invalid misc:1872 Missed beacon:71
... which is excellent cause it gives me a lot of diagnostic information about what my card is doing. I've reviewed Apple's Airport Client Monitor and it is quite nice except that it doesn't tell me what the mac address of the access point that I am currently connected to. Any ideas ??
Thanks! Jeff
I own an iBook G4 and am wondering if there exists a tool to view which 802.11 (g or b) base station my built-in Airport Extreme is connected to. As an example, with Linux ... I can run the command iwconfig and it'll spit out the following:
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wholemilk" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:D0:26:36
Bit Rate:36Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=17/94 Signal level=-78 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:12483 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1872 Invalid misc:1872 Missed beacon:71
... which is excellent cause it gives me a lot of diagnostic information about what my card is doing. I've reviewed Apple's Airport Client Monitor and it is quite nice except that it doesn't tell me what the mac address of the access point that I am currently connected to. Any ideas ??
Thanks! Jeff