Set a Wi-Fi channel

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Set a Wi-Fi channel

shelland opened this issue 6 years ago · 2 comments

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?

Answer 1 · 2019-01-30T00:54:56.000Z

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

Answer 2 · 2019-01-30T08:17:58.000Z

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.