How can I scan on a wireless network, and retrival the results?

peiweijun · 05-25-2009, 02:50 AM

Hi all !

I need to write a C/C++ application that scans for Wireless networks.
What is the native way for doing this? I mean, not using external tools...
I have a sample that uses iwlist scan that produces the desired output. Is there a way to do this without running this shell command?

Thanks.

win32sux · 05-25-2009, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by peiweijun

Hi all !

I need to write a C/C++ application that scans for Wireless networks.
What is the native way for doing this? I mean, not using external tools...
I have a sample that uses iwlist scan that produces the desired output. Is there a way to do this without running this shell command?

Thanks.

On my box, iwlist is a binary:

Code:

win32sux@candystore:~$ file /sbin/iwlist
/sbin/iwlist: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Wouldn't you just need to look at its source code?

peiweijun · 05-26-2009, 10:52 PM

Thanks, I can do it now!