If you want wi-fi handover it sounds like you _don't_ want to do it the way kismet does it - as you quote: '(.. cannot be) associated with any access point.' So, why not scan when you're connected? Something like iwlist wlan0 scan |grep ESSID | cut -d: -f2 |sort|uniq Can be modified ad infinitum, look at the raw output of iwlist wlan 0 scan to see what it provides. (iwlist is from wirelesstools)