Comments on: Howto Check Wireless link quality in Ubuntu Linux

By: mike

mike — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:17:52 +0000

David: you need ctl-alt-f2

alt-f2 is like the windows start->run option

gvsa123: this means (i think) your nic doesn’t support permiscuous(?) mode…i think

By: gvsa123

gvsa123 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:18:14 +0000

i just saw this How to and gave it a try but got this:

wlan0 Interface doesn’t support wireless statistic collection
what does that mean?

By: David

David — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:06:55 +0000

Hello, I’m totaly frech with Linux, so I guess I do something worng, becous when I press Alt+F2 and get the “run command” and write it, press enter, nothing more happens, what am I downing wrong? :S

By: dileep

dileep — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:13:44 +0000

hi, when i use iwspy what i get is this
wlan0 Interface doesn’t support wireless statistic collection
any insight how i can correct this

this is iwconfig status
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
RTS thr=1600 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0