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06-06-2006
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I need a monitoring laptop
I want a machine (laptop) that can monitor the wifi around my house for uninvited nodes. I really just want to play around. I was wondering what kind of hardware do I need for this. I won't be needing a GPS, but I want a laptop that I can ssh into. I don't need X, but I was wondering will I loose features by not having X available. Also I want to be able to monitor B + G traffic so I will probably need a 32-bit bus on the laptop. I was wondering if I could just pick something up for like $100 on ebay and get a card for it. Right now I have a ralink 2500 card and a lucent wavelan silver coming in the mail. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Isn't this the same guy who had the vans parking outside his house?
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Psychic Amish Stumbler
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Against the run of the mill, static as it seems We break the surface tension with our wild kinetic dreams Curves and lines -- of grand designs... Tonight's movie "Soylent Green" has been brought to you by our sponsor - Waste Management My mind is like a Steel trap - Rusty and Illegal in most states |
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Wow this thread has really de-railed.
Just to clarify some things: 1. I really don't want to hack my neighbors wireless or see if vans are parked outside my house. I just want to learn using free software tools. 2. I do not use Windows! 3. I do not only want to see my traffic, I want to see all wireless traffic that can be detected. No ethereal. Really the best way you can help me is tell me kismets hardware requirements, or exactly how cheap I can go on hardware for this kind of "monitor" box. Are we talking a 486? Pentium 2? 64 mb ram? 16mb ram? I need some help here guys. Additionally I would like to know can I monitor B and G traffic simultaneously. Can you help me? |
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Psychic Amish Stumbler
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Managing the iTards.
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Kismet. 486 will work, but you probably won't like it. If you can pick up a pentium 3 ibm laptop that will work, might not have sound though. So you don't use windows, what the hell do you use?? Linux, BSD, OS X, BeOs? We can't read minds, well maybe streaker can, jury is still out on that one.
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Did you do the math?
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I amuse you?
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http://digg.com/users/zenlunatic/submitted
And looks to be a member of almost every *nix forum out there. Maryland? Here is my guess... Quote:
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