Hi all.

I'm writting a swiss-knife style application, monitor, profile manager, configurator, sniffer and stumbler. There is no source code available at this moment, you can see an screenshot of the work of my first day at http://www.kernelpanik.org/wireless/latest_deskshot.jpg.

The monitoring code and the profile manager are quite finished, now I starting the coding of the stumbler feature, and I'm very confused about stumbling, I would like someone to guide me in the basic concepts of stumbling, I read somewhere that the common stumbling technique is capture raw traffic (via pcap? raw sockets?) looking for beacon packets and swaping to one channel to another every few mseconds, is this right? Can I capture beacon packets using pcap? Without monitor mode enabled?

Netstumbler makes AP scanning and uses orinoco cards, cards that don't support monitor mode.

One more thing, apart from stumblig questions, are there any way to know or retrieve the firmware version of the card under Linux?

Regards.
inetd.