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## 1. Introduction

QWireless is a wireless lan analyser tool using the wireles tools of Jean Tourillhes (jean@hpl.hp.com). It extends the wireless tools with some features for larger lans.

Mainly it is designed to be used on a palmtop (ipaq). A ipkg for the Compaq Ipaq is available using qtopia / opie as a platform. Beneath that it is also helpfull on i386 laptops but not so handy. A binary for i386 use ia also available (using QT2.3.2).

QWireless has two major goals.

First of all, it can be used as a normal wireless lan analyser. It provides the user with the information out of the wireless tools in a grafical form that fits on the small screen of a opie/qtopia palmtop.

The second goal is to sample that wireless parameters for larger lans. For this the lan is rastered into equidistant sectors. The user can walk this sectors and just store the result of the measurement into a so called info-list. In the next version I will provide some 2 dimensional grafics preparing this lists information onto an x-y graph.

The version 0.1.0 is pretty stable now. I need to have some feed back about other necessary features and about other network card funktions. I own a 11MBit Enterasys card which is used in the plant Im working in. What would be interesting is, whether orther cards also work.

Please report any problems or feature requests to. Werner Schulte

## 1.1 History

- 0.1.1 initial

## 1.2 RoadBook

This section describes the way, qwireless will go, if I have enough time to implement all the features below. As I work for a very busy company, implementation of new features maybe delayed.

- from VERSION 0.1.1 on
  Bug fixing / special support of other cards ?
- VERSION 0.2.0
  Full implementation of the grafics tools for info visualisation.
- VERSION 0.3.x
  Getting accesspoint statistics ? For this I would need some info how to get there. I think there is a lot of proprietary software running the accesspoints.

## 1.3 Download

You can download an ipkg from my homepage. The path is http://www.uv-ac.de/ipkgs approx. 200KByte.

You can download all files related with this project and also this documentation itself as tarballs from my homepage. The sources are only an actual kdevelop snapshot of my project.

- http://www.uv-ac.de/qwireless/qwireless-X86-BIN-0.1.0.tgz approx. 120KByte.
- http://www.uv-ac.de/qwireless/qwireless-SRC-0.1.0.tgz approx. 2MByte.
- http://www.uv-ac.de/qwireless/qwireless_0.1.0_arm.ipk approx. 160KByte.

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