Anyone got the IBM linux utility for IPAQ ??

09-07-2001

...and is willing to share it ?

09-09-2001

as a soon to be iPAQ owner, my curiosity has piqued, what info do you have in regards to this IBM software?

thanks

09-10-2001

http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/wsa/

This would make buying an IPAQ make sense! You can do an audit inside the building, just carrying your PDA around!!

10-05-2001

Copies are floating around, but you will need a liscense to even run it. Most liscenses I know of at the moment are registered to internal IBM employees and are not out in the wild. Good luck!

cent

10-27-2001

Has anyone found a download link for this yet ?

11-05-2001

Even if you consider yourself an expert at Linux (reflect deeply before you make such an assertion), the iPAQ port is not something to be installed lightly.

I've been fiddling with an iPAQ for a couple of weeks now, and was hoping to install the NetBSD port, or failing that, Linux. But these installs are complicated, risky, and very difficult to back out of.

To play it safe, in addition to the standard iPAQ, in order to successfully backup/restore the original FLASH image, you will need an iPAQ serial cable or serial cradle and a 'compatible' 16Mb or larger CF card. If you have the 'dual PCMCIA' sleeve, you need to buy a CF or single PCMCIA sleeve- the dual sleeve will NOT work to restore the original flash image.

There's much more to the install, many, many intricate steps to avoid blowing away the bootloader and turning your iPAQ into an expensive paperweight.

12-21-2001

Linux on an Ipaq is REALLY quit simple.
Just go to www.handhelds.org and try familiar for your self.
its a thing of 1 hour to get this up and running including support for wavelan (in fact thats just configured out of the box)
more anoying is that your ipaq with linux has an overaluptime of around 2.5 hours running and something like 8 hours supended.... after this everything thats not in flash (the default linux installation and everything that you pack in the 1.5 mb space left over in flash) is gone... so if you forget to plug in your ipaq soon enough ....
yo
karl

03-25-2002

I saw the IBM thing and wanted it too

I've been working on a sniffer for my linux IPAQ and it starts to work.
It'll only give stdout, since I wanted to make a GTK frontend for it that can read gps info and lauch a sniffer on a particular network.

You can find 'sniff' on www.defect.org/ipaq/. You can download the .tgz which has a compiled x86 and ARM binary.

03-25-2002

See http://www.kismetwireless.net It has all the features of the IBM program and more.

04-01-2002

[url]http://www.handhelds.org{/url]
Start there.

I found it surprisingly easy to install on my iPAQ. The most difficult thing about using Linux on a PDA is configuring the system while ON the PDA (well mostly configuring the window manager and X) is a pain in the ass. In other words, using xterm with a stylus sucks. Its best to do all the editing of .conf files and whatnot in a terminal window on another computer. Since I am no linux wizard, I found messing with the default installed system a bit difficult. I have decided to partition my laptop, install Debian GNU/Linux, and practice practice practice. With a handheld, its all about the interface, so learn how to set up your menus and tools before getting to the iPAQ.

Of course, it wouldn't hurt if someone could scrap together a Stumbler distro and distro it. heh

"Kaber rules your mom's long johns. No doubt!"

04-01-2002

http://handhelds.org
http://familiar.handhelds.org

stupid fingers!

04-04-2002

Wellenreiter looks better and works better...take wellenreiter to your ipaq, its not easy but it works :-)

Greetings

Max
Home of the Wellenreiter
http://www.remote-exploit.org

09-07-2001	#1 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Anyone got the IBM linux utility for IPAQ ?? ...and is willing to share it ?

10-05-2001	#4 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	IBM Wireless Security Auditor Copies are floating around, but you will need a liscense to even run it. Most liscenses I know of at the moment are registered to internal IBM employees and are not out in the wild. Good luck! cent

11-05-2001	#6 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Linux on iPAQ is tricky. Even if you consider yourself an expert at Linux (reflect deeply before you make such an assertion), the iPAQ port is not something to be installed lightly. I've been fiddling with an iPAQ for a couple of weeks now, and was hoping to install the NetBSD port, or failing that, Linux. But these installs are complicated, risky, and very difficult to back out of. To play it safe, in addition to the standard iPAQ, in order to successfully backup/restore the original FLASH image, you will need an iPAQ serial cable or serial cradle and a 'compatible' 16Mb or larger CF card. If you have the 'dual PCMCIA' sleeve, you need to buy a CF or single PCMCIA sleeve- the dual sleeve will NOT work to restore the original flash image. There's much more to the install, many, many intricate steps to avoid blowing away the bootloader and turning your iPAQ into an expensive paperweight.

12-21-2001	#7 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	linux difficult? Linux on an Ipaq is REALLY quit simple. Just go to www.handhelds.org and try familiar for your self. its a thing of 1 hour to get this up and running including support for wavelan (in fact thats just configured out of the box) more anoying is that your ipaq with linux has an overaluptime of around 2.5 hours running and something like 8 hours supended.... after this everything thats not in flash (the default linux installation and everything that you pack in the 1.5 mb space left over in flash) is gone... so if you forget to plug in your ipaq soon enough .... yo karl

03-25-2002	#9 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Kismet See http://www.kismetwireless.net It has all the features of the IBM program and more.

09-09-2001	#2 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	as a soon to be iPAQ owner, my curiosity has piqued, what info do you have in regards to this IBM software? thanks

09-10-2001	#3 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/wsa/ This would make buying an IPAQ make sense! You can do an audit inside the building, just carrying your PDA around!!

10-27-2001	#5 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Has anyone found a download link for this yet ?

03-25-2002	#8 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	I saw the IBM thing and wanted it too I've been working on a sniffer for my linux IPAQ and it starts to work. It'll only give stdout, since I wanted to make a GTK frontend for it that can read gps info and lauch a sniffer on a particular network. You can find 'sniff' on www.defect.org/ipaq/. You can download the .tgz which has a compiled x86 and ARM binary.

04-01-2002	#10 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Familiar Linux 5.0 on iPAQ 3765 [url]http://www.handhelds.org{/url] Start there. I found it surprisingly easy to install on my iPAQ. The most difficult thing about using Linux on a PDA is configuring the system while ON the PDA (well mostly configuring the window manager and X) is a pain in the ass. In other words, using xterm with a stylus sucks. Its best to do all the editing of .conf files and whatnot in a terminal window on another computer. Since I am no linux wizard, I found messing with the default installed system a bit difficult. I have decided to partition my laptop, install Debian GNU/Linux, and practice practice practice. With a handheld, its all about the interface, so learn how to set up your menus and tools before getting to the iPAQ. Of course, it wouldn't hurt if someone could scrap together a Stumbler distro and distro it. heh "Kaber rules your mom's long johns. No doubt!"

04-01-2002	#11 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	http://handhelds.org http://familiar.handhelds.org stupid fingers!

04-04-2002	#12 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	Take wellenreiter Wellenreiter looks better and works better...take wellenreiter to your ipaq, its not easy but it works :-) Greetings Max Home of the Wellenreiter http://www.remote-exploit.org

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