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
> >>
> >
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