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KisMAC 0.21a (Mac OS X)

1 star for price? But it's free!  

Oh, and another thing - would the people who have given us one star in the price category please inform us as to why? We'd really like to know. The only way we can make the current price any better is if we pay you to use the app - it's free and opensource at the moment! [alert admin]

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Monday, April 09 2007 @ 12:15 AM PDT

iStumbler 98 (Mac OS X)

Nice app, a little rough around the edges.  

1. Some accesspoints for no reason come up as "-1mhz", and are seen on channel 0. 2. Why are the frequencies of accesspoints measured in mhz anyway. Channels are there for a reason. I know 2412MHZ sounds slgihtly more advanced, but for an app that is supposed to be simple, it's counter-intuitive. "Channel 1" is much simpler. 3. The frequency of 802.11a accesspoints is completely messed up. Intel Macs can detect 802.11a. 4. Why is it impossible to monitor more than one network at once? The app is operating in active mode. 5. There's a lot of holes in the MAC address table. 6. Why do Bluetooth devices, when found, report "17MHZ" as their frequency in the Growl popup? 7. The inspector for Bluetooth devices is horribly broken for devices where the name hasn't been gathered yet. 8. In preferences, why are there very low-res icons for the AirPort and Bluetooth tabs? 9. Why is it detecting several non-existant airport base stations with a BSSID of all zeros? Kismac, Macstumbler and the airport commandline tool are all not finding them, and they're not in the airport menu? Apart from these, it's a nice app. Keep up the good work. [alert admin]

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Saturday, March 31 2007 @ 06:33 AM PDT

KisMAC 0.21a (Mac OS X)

Some tips for users  

1. Follow the instructions on https://trac.kismac.de/wiki/Troubleshooting%20AirPort%20Extreme carefully. This will tell you how to get the AirPort Extreme to work. 2. As said in the documentation, this is an app reccommended for professionals. It's not simple to get working, and it's not doing "the same thing as iStumbler", it's in fact very different, and much more advanced (passive vs active scanning - iStumbler is a simple wrapper around the OS X API for displaying the networks in the airport menu. KisMac puts your airport card into passive mode, and channel hops itself, meaning it can see network traffic and hidden SSIDs as well as more details about the network). KisMac also features GPS mapping. 3. It doesn't require you to turn yourself inside out. That is in fact optional. If you're having trouble with the app, ask for help on the mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/kismac. Posting comments here asking for help may not get you any. You may have selected the wrong driver, have the wrong settings, or have encountered a bug. Ask us on the mailing list, we're happy to help. 4. KisMac does not "kill" airport cards. It does make some minor adjustments to the driver's preferences. If your airport card stops working, follow the steps in point 1 above, then contact us on the mailing list. We'd be happy to help if you tell us exactly what's going on. If there has been a hardware failure, it's not anything to do with software - we don't do anything that out of the ordinary. If worse comes to worse (and this is a LAST resort, if none of us genuinely can help), your airport card will be recovered by re-installing OS X. As I said, this is a last resort - it's almost certainly fixable another way. 5. I am going to refrain from rating the app, as I am one of the developers (aka themacuser, but my old account is apparently not activated and the activation link does nothing). 6. KisMac is best used with a ralink or prism2 USB wireless card, these allow more advanced features that we cannot support on the built in AirPort Extreme. 7. Yes, I'll admit the documentation could be better. But it's an open-source project (nobody's being paid to work on this), and we'd appreciate it if, once someone gets it working, if they post to the previously mentioned mailing list what they did. Better still, edit the wiki at http://trac.kismac.de/ with your experiences. 8. If you're running on an Intel mac (and even then if you're not, it may be a good idea), you'll need the latest beta, which is not available to sites such as VersionTracker / Macupdate (as it's a beta, naturally). It's on http://trac.kismac.de/ if you want it. Any questions - contact the mailing list (http://www.freelists.org/list/kismac) (and thereby me) or the IRC channel (#kismac on freenode). We'll be glad to help. [alert admin]

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Thursday, March 15 2007 @ 04:31 AM PDT

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