there's the iwlist command. I put together an awk script to columnate the data I cared about, and a cronjob that runs it analyzes it for things i care about (like neighbors using my same or similar network name, same frequencies, etc, and put it in a cronjob to log and email me anomalies. Works pretty well. I can share my script and awk if helpful On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am having interference with my neighbouring wireless networks. >> Is there a linux tool that enables me to monitor the ESSID, channel, >> power output and other information for neighbouring wireless networks? >> I am especially interested in the channel so I can choose a different one. >> Thank you, >> Joe >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > There is a really good Android app, WIFI analyzer > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer if > you have access to a phone or better yet a tablet. Very nice and allows > you to look at all kinds of things, I also know of another one called Wifi > Radar for linux but not nears as good. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Billy Crook * Network and Security Administrator * RiskAnalytics, LLC