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Wireless refers to the technology allowing transfer of information between two points that are not physically connected.

Wireless technologies allow the transfer of data between two points that have no physical connection. Traditionally, those physical connection are made in copper wires hence the term "wire-less".

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Get list of devices in local network (LAN)?

I'm looking for a way to find all devices (especially printers) in the local area network (LAN). Is there are way to differentiate between printers and other devices (smartphones, laptops, computers, etc.)?
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Is it possible to detect LTE connection using iOS SDK?

I'm using the reachability API to detect my current connection, but I can only distinguish between WIFI and 3G. I get the following flags: LTE:…
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How does iwlist() command scans the wireless networks?

I want to know how iwlist command scans the wireless networks available, in linux. I read its source code and there was an ioctl call using SIOCSIWSCAN to trigger the scan and SIOCGIWSCAN to get the scan results. But how the beacon frames are…
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Want to know the ESSID of wireless network via C++ in UBUNTU

I have written the following program to get the ESSID of the wireless network to which my Desktop is currently connected, but it is giving me errors. Can anyone help me correct the bugs? Code: #include #include #include…
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Realtek RTL8822BU driver from arm to arm64 to run on RPi 3B+ (Kali)

I recently purchased a new wireless adapter for use with Kali Linux running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. The driver described within the specification was RTL8812. I assumed (you know what they say) that it would be RTL8812AU for which there is an ARM64…
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Is it possible to check who is connected to your wireless network?

So after hours of research i have found nothing about this question. Is it possible to see who is connected to my wireless network using C#? Example: I have 2 Laptops - Laptop A and Laptop B. A is on running my program I made and connected to my…
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Scapy python script consuming too much cpu while sniffing

I have coded a wireless probe sniffer using python + scapy. I'm want to use this script in openwrt routers. Everytime it captures a probe request from nearby devices, the information is send to a webservice. (mac, power and probe). My problem is the…
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How to capture all wireless network traffic wireshark and wpa2?

Ok, so I want to do some tests on my network. I have a wireless network, with a WPA2 password. I have the password, it's my own router. I have 3 laptops in here, and I want to capture all the traffic from the router with Wireshark. I've first set my…
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Set or View "Advanced Wi-fi" Settings programatically

I need a way to open the "Advanced wifi" settings programatically to let the user change some of the settings, or, preferably, to change these advanced wireless settings programatically. I can only access the wi-fi settings so far via…
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ADB used to connect wirelessly, now I can't connect and get double port error (unable to connect *.*.*.*:5555:5555)

I was using the adb wireless app on my older Droid X. It was working flawlessly for months, no problem at all. I didn't update anything, nothing has changed on anything. The computer wasn't restarted, nor was the phone. Now I can't connect. The…
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predefined cell ID assignment for an ad-hoc wlan

I have a debian/ubuntu boards that I connect them via an ad-hoc network with the following settings board:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 wpa-driver…
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Why Beacon needed when there is probe response

I was trying to understand the use of beacon and probe response in 802.11 network. If advertising the existence of a AP is only the goal, then why beacon frame needed? Passive scanning may be important while the station is in roaming but is it the…
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Turn Binary Data into Airborne Packets?

Are there any software libraries and/or wireless drivers that make it possible to turn a sequence of binary data into a wireless packet in the air? For example, if someone used Airpcap / Wireshark to capture a series of interesting packets, is…
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How do I connect/disconnect/configure a wireless network in python?

I'm looking to see if there is a way to connect or disconnect to a wireless network in python, preferably a way that would work for both public and secured networks if I supplied the password. If I can configure the options about wireless, that…
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How to detect when known wireless devices join my wireless LAN on Linux

I am going to make mobile device detector using a single board computer (SBC) running a Linux based OS. The SBC will have a USB/802.11 wireless adaptor. The SBC will be a DHCP server. The mobile device will join the wireless network (adhoc or…
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