[wplug] Linux wi-fi spectrum analyzer?

[David Ostroske]

Chris, Zach, I've got to admit that I haven't been following the
conversation because, to be totally truthful, I'm a hardware idiot. I
can program things but can't say why the "problem" light is blinking.
But I did want to weigh in on this etiquette issue.

I don't necessarily think it's rude to ask about "X in Linux" on the
mailing list, especially if people can share their personal experience
with X. We don't flood the mailing list that often, you know. But if I
had to push somebody off to Google, I'd link to
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+wi-fi+spectrum+analyzer and be done with
it.

Actually, that was a little bit rude, what I did there. But the
trade-off was worth it.

-- Dave O


On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Chris Teodorski <chris at teodorski.com> wrote:
> Zach,
>
> I know this is going to sound like I'm being a jerk, but it seems to
> me that at least 75% of the questions you post to this list could be
> answered with a simple Google search.  It sure seems to me that you
> should start there with your questions.  I think the responses you get
> would be COMPLETELY different if you said "I'm curious about X, I
> googled X and got the following results.  Would you folks have a
> better suggestion than the Google results I got?"  I'll confess to not
> reading most of your e-mails, because I know in most cases you didn't
> even bother to look for the answer yourself.  I'll bet I'm not alone
> in that.   No one here minds helping, but generally they are more
> willing to help people who try to help themselves.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Moshe Hyzon <mokatz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Google says....
>>
>> http://www.kismetwireless.net/spectools/
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Zachary Uram <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/9558/
>>>
>>> $300 is kinda steep and it doesn't work in Linux. What hardware and
>>> software would one need for Linux to duplicate this functionality and
>>> would it be cheaper than $300?
>>>
>>> Zach