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

[Dotan Cohen]

> But WPA / WPA2 is the encryption and has nothing to
> do with -b / -g / -n.

That's what I thought.


> 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".
>

Thanks, that;s good to know. Hopefully someone who knows will chime in!

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