Simple Wireless Scanner (SWScanner) is an application for Linux [1] environments designed for scanning, configuring, and (in general) managing wireless networks. SWScanner [2] is also a powerfull wardriving [3] tool, and has a high level of compatibility with NetStumbler [4], a similar and well-known application designed for other operating system.
General features:
- SWScanner [5] uses wireless-extensions [6].
- Detailed and updated information of signal, noise, and other wireless network parameters of the selected interface.
- GPS integration.
- Possibility of storing network settings of the detected access points.
- Simplifies the asociating/deasociating process to an access point.
- Posibility of storing scanned data.
- Simplifies wardriving [7].
- Combatible log data between NetStumbler [8] and SWScanner [9]; i.e.: it is possible to open a text or summary file produced with NS. NS will also recognize log files produced by SWScanner [10].
- Conversion of log (text or summary) files (from NS or SWScanner [11]) to the well-known an widely used ESRI Shapefile format [12].