[TriLUG] what are my wireless options?

[Kevin Flanagan]

Check out backtrack, a custom slackware based distro that includes kismet.
Kismet dumps out several files, not the least of which is an XML file with
lots of info, signal strength, noise, etc.
Backtrack <http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html>

On 6/22/07, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe you can dump the information from kismet onto your web server
> and query it?  Yes, most Orinoco cards are supported.
>
>
>
>
> On 6/22/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have an old laptop (celeron, so-so harddrive, not very fast).  I need
> to
> > measure and track signal strength and noise from my wireless access
> points
> > as the beach.  I have a couple Orinoco 802.11b cards, which I think are
> > supported, and some Cisco 802.11b cards which I think are supported as
> > well.
> >
> > What can I use to track the signal and noise?  Does whatever package out
> > there that does this have a web interface that I could query from afar
> so
> > I
> > could check the history over the Internet?
> >
> > Greg
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