Notices

For those of you who didn't notice, Kismet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_%28software%29) is now out for the N900. It is available for easily downloading in the repositories,

Has anyone given it an in-depth look, how well does it work with the built-in Wi-Fi chip?

Some discussion on it can be found here:

http://www.petrilopia.net/wordpress/...ng-nokia-n900/

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ghlight=kismet

(Image below stolen from the first link)

The one item I have found to be a problem thus far is that the N900 version of Kismet seems to save all its log files (and pcaps) by default in /root, thus eating up tons of space when it runs. Ideally this should go in /opt (be "optified")

Hopefully this will be addressed. The program is great on the N900 though, but I'm sure more avid fans of Kismet will be able to say how it compares to desktop version

waiting for it to be optified

I have read through the Kismet documentation on the main website, it looks like Kismet writes its logs by default in the same directory you start the program in... so you should start Kismet in "My Documents", rather than the default xterm directory. This should alleviate the space-eating issue since the logs will no be written in /root.

It is already optified

You are right, this is the default Kismet behaviour. I now have changed it in 2010.01.R1-r3028-1, so it always writes logs to /home/user/MyDocs.
More details can be found in my announce.

Thank you!