wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It should work (though with varying features) with all devices supported by the Linux kernel.
See the man page for an in-depth description of operation and configuration.
Apart from debian/ubuntu packages (apt-cache search wavemon
) and slackbuild scripts for wavemon, this repository contains the full source code.
Minimally the following are required:
- the
pkg-config
package, - netlink
libnl-cli-3-dev
at least version 3.2 (pulls inlibnl-3-dev
,libnl-genl-3-dev
), - ncurses development files (
libncursesw6
,libtinfo6
,libncurses-dev
).
On Debian/Ubuntu, this can be done using
apt-get -y install pkg-config libncursesw6 libtinfo6 libncurses-dev libnl-cli-3-dev
Please note the "w" in libncursesw6
, which stands for the wide-character variant of ncurses.
This is required for proper rendering on UTF-8 terminals.
wavemon uses autoconf
, so that in most cases you can simply run
./configure
make
sudo make install
to build and install the package. Type make uninstall
if not happy.
To grant users access to restricted networking operations (scanning), use instead
sudo make install-suid-root
If you have changed some of the autoconf files or use a git version, run
./config/bootstrap
(This requires a recent installation of autotools
.)