LinSSID Files

©2012-2016 Warren Severin
This program is released under the terms of the GNU Public License (version 3).


Version 2.9
* Use distro-supplied version of qwt shared library.

Version 2.8
* Conversion from old linux wireless tools to nl80211 tools.
* New information displayed - bandwidth, make and model of router (when available)
* Updated vendor database

Version 2.7
* Hopefully fixes an occassional problem in some configurations where LinSSID hangs during
  scan when the wifi interface is connected to an attach point
* Updated vendor database

Version 2.6:
* Fixes a possible bug in interface detection
* Static link to libboost-regex
* Update vendor database

Version 2.5:
* Fixes an issue with how the zsh shell interprets command lines. Huge thanks to Alex Stelmachonak.

Version 2.4:
* Same as 2.3 code but necessary to get a i386 build through Canonical. Long story.

Version 2.3:
* Fixed issue with RTL8187SE card and driver not providing frequency resulting in LinSSID crash.
* Renamed the column that displays WEP, WPA2, etc., to "Privacy".
* Added column for protocol {a,b,g,n}. (Note that many drivers do not report protocol.)
* Modified data logging format to reflect as above
* Added buttons for immediate clear or set of plotting of all visible attach points
* Improved response to Plot column check boxes
* Cleaned up a few minor bugs
* Updated vendor database

Version 2.2:
* Fixes several small bugs
* Adds a status display line to top panel
* Now built with QT5 and Qwt 6.1
* Updated wifi vendor database

Version 2.1:
* Fixes issue with not finding some interfaces when they are 'up'
    but not connected to an attach point.
* Updated wifi vendor database

Version 2.0:
* Hopefully fixes the problem with not finding some wireless interfaces.

Version 1.9:
* Added data logging to "~/LinSSID.datalog"
* Anti-aliased plots
* Updated wifi vendor database

Version 1.8a:
* Minor ooopps fix in password handling

Version 1.8:
* Stability improvement build
* - Improved odd character handling in password verification
* - Improved handling of default values on initial install or upgrade
* - Improved wireless port discovery

Version 1.7:
* Adds horizontal grid to plots
* Adds a Preferences menu item under the File menu.
* - Adjust plot scale
* - Toggle grid lines on/off

Version 1.6:
* Attempts to fix frequent crashing with some wifi drivers. Also some cosmetic changes.
* - Fixes problem of some drivers reporting attach points (based on MAC address) more than once per scan. (Go figure...)
* - Fixes code problem handling recalcitrant drivers that don't want to do a scan when requested to do so.
* Centers most text alignment in cells

Version 1.5:
* Saves window layout between sessions. Keeps ".linssid.prefs" in home folder. If things go haywire delete the prefs file.

Version 1.4:
* Imposes minimum 0.5 second "nap time" between scans so that poorly written drivers crash less.
* Updates the UOI vendor database
* Improves concurrency of wifi scanning and main form updating.

The wireless tools that LinSSID uses require root privilege to access. If your machine has sudo, the best way to run is to launch the program and let it ask you for a password. That way it will only use root privilege to execute a few privileged system commands, but LinSSID itself will not run as a root process. The other way to run LinSSID is to launch it from a root account or with su or sudo. It will run, but in my opinion that's a bit more dangerous. One never knows what nasty bugs may be waiting to damage.

Please report bugs on the discussion tab at the project web page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/linssid/