Kiswin32 - Kismet for windows in a can!
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:07 pm
I initially told everyone about this in a different thread, but I'm starting this one as an 'official' announcement and the inevitable place for support/discussion, etc.
In October of 2005, Joshua Wright of the SANS institute was able to accomplish what I'd been hoping would happen for over a year. As part of a webcast on monitoring your Wlan, he was able to get kismet into a nearly standalone package, made to work with my WRT54G Kismet_drones. He included scripting and all the nessecary Cygwin DLL's to have it run virtually on it's own.
So instead of a bulky 100+ meg cygwin install, he had an easily distributable package that weighs in at just over 6 meg. He was kind enough to provide me with a beta version for some testing, and once he released it, I went in and added GPSD for cygwin to the package and edited the scripting to support it as well.
So, thanks mostly to Joshua Wright's work, and his kind permission, Kiswin32 is available to everyone who want's to run Kismet on windows without having to install Cygwin. Should work on Win2K/XP. Anything else and you on your own.
I'll still be updating the Kismet-on-windows guide as the 'manual' version of compiling/installing kismet on windows, this package it meant mostly for everyones ease of use.
http://www.renderlab.net/projects/wrt54g/kiswin.html
http://www.churchofwifi.org/Project_Display.asp?PID=65
In October of 2005, Joshua Wright of the SANS institute was able to accomplish what I'd been hoping would happen for over a year. As part of a webcast on monitoring your Wlan, he was able to get kismet into a nearly standalone package, made to work with my WRT54G Kismet_drones. He included scripting and all the nessecary Cygwin DLL's to have it run virtually on it's own.
So instead of a bulky 100+ meg cygwin install, he had an easily distributable package that weighs in at just over 6 meg. He was kind enough to provide me with a beta version for some testing, and once he released it, I went in and added GPSD for cygwin to the package and edited the scripting to support it as well.
So, thanks mostly to Joshua Wright's work, and his kind permission, Kiswin32 is available to everyone who want's to run Kismet on windows without having to install Cygwin. Should work on Win2K/XP. Anything else and you on your own.
I'll still be updating the Kismet-on-windows guide as the 'manual' version of compiling/installing kismet on windows, this package it meant mostly for everyones ease of use.
http://www.renderlab.net/projects/wrt54g/kiswin.html
http://www.churchofwifi.org/Project_Display.asp?PID=65