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

[NoOp]

On 03/08/2010 05:48 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 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!
> 

You might find these interesting reading:
http://csrp.inl.gov/Documents/Wireless%20802.11i%20Rec%20Practice.pdf
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.11-2007.pdf