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SkypLabs / probequest

Toolkit for Playing with Wi-Fi Probe Requests

https://probequest.skyplabs.net/en/stable/

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Set a Wi-Fi channel #15

Closed shelland closed 5 years ago

shelland commented 5 years ago

Hi, can you please explain a concept of channel switching? I suppose that Wi-Fi devices use several channels to broadcast their probe frames. How can I define a channel to collect such requests using your script?

shelland commented 5 years ago

After some investigation it seems like I need to change a channel using an iw command line utility.

SkypLabs commented 5 years ago

Hi @shelland,

Yes indeed, ProbeQuest doesn't have this option at the moment. If you want to set a specific channel number, you need to do it manually with an external tool. For example, iw dev wlan0 set channel 11.

This option will be implemented in ProbeQuest later on.