Thread: The Kismet Thread
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walts is offline walts
2008-02-14 , 20:39
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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...)

Have you had any luck getting the APs to show up on the map?
I did the same thing, and the Lat/Long shows up in the kismet screen, and of course in the data file, but all that showed on the map was the track I took while driving around.
That doesn't surprise me, really. I wonder if there is anything that could be done with the POI mechanism to plot the APs.

I also suspect, but haven't tried it, that kismet would find the GPS without help from the mapping program, once it's paired with the N800.

Walt