Wireless Hacks book published by O'reilly

[Gregg Levine]

On 11/12/07, lists at lazygranch.com <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:
> I assume that is the O'reiily book. I got it at a local used book store. It
> is a bit dated, but still very useful.
>
> Regarding Netstumbler, you should try to get kismet running. It is much more
> detailed. You can find stealth access points, sniff packets, etc. However,
> it is very complicated to install. I still haven't got the GPSD interface
> compiled.
>
> If you have enough hardware, run kismet on one computer, then use wifi on
> another computer. That is, sniff your own packets. It is educational. ;-)
>
> Kismet has a variety of odd sounds. One is for an alert whose significance I
> don't understand, but it is great for raising your paranoia level.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:52:56
> To:"SeattleWireless Talk List" <talk at seattlewireless.net>
> Subject: Wireless Hacks book published by O'reilly
>
>
> Hello!
> I just finished reading the copy of Wireless Hacks that I checked out
> of my public library several days previously. This is my second time
> around with it since it was published, and obviously bought by either
> the SIBL branch of the New York Public Library, this copy, first time
> was with one copy from BPL (Brooklyn Public Library), both copies were
> the first editions published in September of 2003.
>
> I found it to be an interesting work. Rob Flickenger, if you are still
> around here, meaning the list, then thank you for taking the time to
> compile these hacks into one volume, each and every one were a big
> help to a better understanding concerning both the WAP11 access point,
> and the card I am using, a wavelan based one, but an IBM OEM one.
>
> I found it interesting to watch the traffic statisics collect via Net
> Stumbler and of course I discovered other access points out in my
> neighborhood, including one or two who were not running simple forms
> of security.
> --
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature was once found posting rude
>  messages in English in the Moscow subway."

Hello!

You are indeed very correct concerning the book. Inside he gives
credit to several people, including one or two who I've seen on this
list.

Way ahead of you there. I have obtained a binary created for my
distribution, and created a portable setup. Essentially it is kismet
installed into a copy of RUNT who itself is on a gigabyte SD card.
(RUNT is Slackware based.)

I am making arrangements to run the tests that you were thinking of.
It seems that the laptop doesn't have everything the source code wants
to find. If need be I'll work out how to install a more recent release
of Slackware there.

-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
 messages in English in the Moscow subway."