F U N witools witools is a small collection of utilities to aid in the exploration of 802.11 wireless networks.
Documentation is also a little on the lite side.
We're currently in the process of trying to convince the Lucent Hermes chip to give us access to the raw, encrypted, 802.11 packets. The patch is available here , more information, including an explanation as to why this isn't particularly useful, is available here . Another little utility we developed while examining network traffic is rawdump. It logs all sorts of interesting information, allows you to pass pretty much any packet coming in the wireless interface up the protocol stack, and issue commands directly to the card from user space. This is dangerous and buggy code, it hasn't exploded in a bad way for me yet, but you have been warned.