How to check which wireless protocol is in use? Wicd?

[Nils Kassube]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Thanks! It looks like I have some reading to do: they all show as
>  802.11i.
> 
> According to wikipedia 802.11i is WPA (I think, I still need to
>  read), does that mean that when an access point is broadcasting via
>  WPA others cannot tell which protocol (-g, -n) is in use? Or am I
>  completely not understanding things?

802.11i could be WPA2 as well. My AP is set up as WPA2 only and I see 
the 802.11i as well. But WPA / WPA2 is the encryption and has nothing to 
do with -b / -g / -n. On my two machines I have different outputs from 
the iwlist scan command. On the machine with ipw2200 driver I can see a 
line "Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg" or "Protocol:IEEE 802.11g" for the two 
available networks at my location. On the machine with ath5k driver I 
can't see that information. Maybe that info is hidden in one of the many 
lines like "IE: Unknown: 2A0100".


Nils