Detecting Wifi

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I have a laptop which insists on connecting to Wifi as soon as I get in, whereupon the router it's connecting to can presumably get its MAC address. I would like to stop this, but I would also like to know that I've been successful, ie. that my MAC addr is NOT being given out to anyone!
I have a Linux laptop as well, which has a Wifi adapter - my question is: how do I use *this* laptop to detect the "connecting to Wifi sequence" of the above? ie. exactly WHAT this thing is giving out?

Thanks for your help.

[thenewcq]

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I have a laptop which insists on connecting to Wifi as soon

as I get in,

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whereupon the router it's connecting to can presumably get

its MAC

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address. I would like to stop this, but I would also like

to know that

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I've been successful, ie. that my MAC addr is NOT being

given out to

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anyone! I have a Linux laptop as well, which has a Wifi

adapter - my

Post by m***@gmail.com
question is: how do I use *this* laptop to detect the

"connecting to Wifi

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sequence" of the above? ie. exactly WHAT this thing is

giving out?

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Thanks for your help.

yea, dude use wireshark on the linux box