* Mike Ellsworth <mellsworth at stratvantage.com> [041227 21:53]: > We're looking to buy a couple handheld devices to do indoor and outdoor site > surveys with. We'd prefer to avoid Windows-based devices, and are looking > for inexpensive solutions as we may be buying several more. Units that can > also do security audits would be a plus, although not required. GPS would be > great. > > Many of the units seem to be very expensive, and some make you buy the > Windows handheld separately. Is there anything out there that's good and > based on, say, the Zaurus? I would just get an ipaq, a pcmcia backpack, handheld.org's familiar, kismet, a GPS (one that does bluetooth, perhaps, even), a wireless card (like the d-link prism2 high-power card, because it has a detachable antenna and fairly good sensitivity), and post-process the logs after your done. I've worked with all of the above sans GPS, and it does a pretty good job. Kismet pumps out logs in tons of great formats, and you should be able to get a good set of coordinates for each AP if you make enough samples. Kismet can also log *everything* into pcap, so you can crack wep keys later (do it during the day when people are using the wlan, too, tho). -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> KC0OBS http://www.ringworld.org/ -- http://www.railworks.org/ -- http://publictransportation.org/ -- Stop "playing political splat ball," support the Northstar Train! _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list