I agree with the itch, this would be pretty cool... I'd like to do it w/o a laptop and just from glancing at the zaurus site it seems the right hardware is there:
http://www.myzaurus.com/accessories.asp Anyone know of any effective zaurus wardriving hardware configurations? ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Grigsby, Garl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:08:56 -0400 > I've been itching to try this for some time, but I haven't got any hardware > yet, other than my laptop. In fact I spent a couple of hours about a week ago > bouncing around Ebay looking at wireless cards and GPS antennas. I've been thinking > that I would prefer a USB GPS antenna, but I haven't looked at what is supported on > Linux. > So what GPS unit are you using? What wireless card? Are there any wireless > PCMCIA cards that will support an external antenna? I've been looking at probably > getting a DLink DWL-650 because a) they are cheap, and b) they seem to have pretty > good Linux support (prism2). > So does anybody have a WiFi card they are looking to get rid of? I have some > cash and lots of stuff I can trade. Just let me know. > > >Thanks, >Garl > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brad Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:42 PM >> To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list >> Subject: Re: [eug-lug]Coffee >> >> >> That was generated by GPSMap, a nifty little util that comes with the >> Kismet (the open-source wardriving util). If you have a GPS reciever >> connected while you're wardriving, it logs GPS data when it detects a >> packet. This is all saved to a big XML file, that GPSMap >> parses out, and >> displayes on a map. It does a power-weighted average of >> points that each >> AP was observed to guess where it is, and what the range on it is. >> >> I've made a few patches to it that I haven't yet got around to getting >> merged into the main source... mostly because I promised the mailing >> list a feature that I was quite happy with, and I'm embarassed to post >> it in the current state. I just haven't got around to >> finishing it yet. >> >> Anyways. Dot color indicates protection - green is no-wep, red is wep, >> blue is probably-factory-config (like a Linksys AP with a SSID of >> Linksys, etc). It's all passive so it can't know if it's got MAC >> restrictions on, of course. >> >> The shape is the packet/AP type - circle is managed, triangle >> is ad-hoc, >> + is an association request, square is if we didn't get enough data to >> create a network entry for the packets... normally this means >> association requests. >> >> Circle color is channel. >> >> Size is a (very) rough estimation of where the network can be >> picked up. >> >> The feature I wasn't happy with is the legend-printing function that >> explains all of this in a box on the image. Hence my lack of a public >> release :) >> >> -Brad >> >> Grigsby, Garl wrote: >> > Ok let me finish typing that now.... >> > couple of questions. What do the various colored does mean? >> Are these public WAPs or are these just "open" WAPs. How did >> you generate the image? Manually or did you have some >> software to map out WAP locations and ranges? >> > >> > >> >>http://wifimon:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/~kiloman/gpsmap/city_lo >> >>wdetail.png >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > EuG-LUG mailing list >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EuG-LUG mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >> > >_______________________________________________ >EuG-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug