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I have aircrack-ng 1.2 beta 3 and I wanted to know how I can find the wireless MAC address (aka BSSID) of any wireless access point with aircrack-ng (or any other program).

I am currently running Ubuntu 14.10.

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Use iw device scan to show all information about currently visible networks. The output has more than an entire screenful per network, so use grep to trim it down:

$ sudo iw wlan0 scan | egrep "^BSS|SSID:"
BSS 24:a4:3c:9e:d2:84(on wlan0) -- associated
    SSID: eduroam
BSS 24:a4:3c:ae:df:83(on wlan0)
    SSID: Example multi-AP network
BSS dc:9f:db:30:c1:7a(on wlan0)
    SSID: Example multi-AP network
BSS 00:19:3b:99:e2:80(on wlan0)
    SSID: TEO Wi-Fi

For some very old Wi-Fi card drivers, you'll need the iwlist device scan tool instead:

$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | egrep "Address:|ESSID:"
          Cell 01 - Address: 24:A4:3C:9E:D2:84
                    ESSID:"eduroam"
          Cell 02 - Address: 24:A4:3C:AE:DF:83
                    ESSID:"Example multi-AP network"
          Cell 03 - Address: DC:9F:DB:30:C1:7A
                    ESSID:"Example multi-AP network"
          Cell 04 - Address: 24:A4:3C:9E:D2:16
                    ESSID:"Example multi-AP network"

Aircrack also comes with the airodump-ng tool which repeatedly shows all networks it sees. (You need to enable monitor mode first, using airmon-ng.)

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