Thread: The Kismet Thread
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walts is offline walts
2008-02-03 , 13:02
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#51
Originally Posted by electrolind View Post
After puttering around for awhile, I got Kismet to work with my Holux BT GPS and you ain't gonna believe the solution.

1. Started Maemo Mapper and enabled the GPS
2. Did the sudo gainroot thing in X terminal
3. Ran kismet

Just went around my block and it logged the max and min lat/longs of the 100 or so AP's in my neighborhood. I am quite psyched! Now onto mapping! I'm wondering if I lucked out on the kismet.conf tweaking 'cuz I'm a user not a programmer. (Thanks to Thoughtfix and Gnuite for their thoughts and Andrea Lange for the Italian instructions for Wardriving with your 770 that started me on this.) I hope others can duplicate this. If there is anything you need off my N800 let me know (and possibly help get it copied...)
Just two questions...
First, when I run Maemo Mapper, of course if wants a map.... but the only choices seem to be East/West USA at 750MB +. Are there smaller state or regional maps? Where?
Second, does anyone know if this will work with an N800 plus a Bluetooth GPS? I have a Teletype GPS that has worked with a variety of Windows Mobile devices; I have yet to try it with Maemo because of question #1, but will buy a 4GB SD card if it is likely to work.
Third (an afterthought) has anyone gotten the signal-strength to work in Kismet? It just shows up as a constant 0.0 on my installation, but all the other columns seem to work properly. I have version 2007.01.R1b-1.0 which I think is the latest for OS2008.

Walt