If you change counties, that will query wigle.net for more new points. If you have only downloaded one county, you should still have the default mappack that came with JiGLE. Switch to that and back to your county and that should update.

Here is the Thinkpad version, same basic concept. This is the USD $5 Travel Bezel that snaps into the Ultrabay 2000 in the side of the laptop, right next to the PCMCIA slots. There was a cross-piece inside it, I cut a wide notch in it with a sharp knife to let the surgical tubing go through it OK. h...

I know that you war-bike a lot. This was assuming driving in a vehicle, and having the laptop run on 12VDC. You could probably just wrap your whole laptop with the surgical tubing, and have that be a strain relief of sorts, also. It is quite inexpensive, and easy to tie off at different lengths. The...

IBM Thinkpad users have an easy way to protect their pigtails. The removable CD/DVD/Battery/HD Ultrabay has a blank filler plate, that snaps in nicely to replace said device. It is right next to the PCMCIA slots (on my old A21M anyway), and it's easy to drill a few holes in the filler plate and thre...

After a while, continued wardriving (or any use of laptop in vehicle) can be a harsh environment on them. It makes perfect sense to get a cheapie for this use, that won't kill you if something happens to it. I use an old Gateway celeron 450 that a co-worker gave to me. I maxed it out on RAM, and it ...

for wardriving, there are dozens/hundreds of old laptops that have dual PCMCIA slots. There are tens of slim SMC/Senao cards that will fit into two slots including their integral antenna. The antenna is removable, and has jacks for external antenae. old laptops may not fulfill all online needs, but ...

i'll cast a positive vote for "the little yellow Garmin" as well. I also use a Garmin GPS16 (magmount hockey puck GPS). the Etrex is fine for starting out, and as many have said, quite rugged. it's also nice for geocaching. no maps, very simple, but works well. mine seemed to be happiest w...

it could take weeks, if the AP isn't doing much. i'm not sure about Macs, but if you can run aireplay, sometimes you can capture/regenerate enough weak IV packets in 30 minutes or less.

if you're using Kismet, an amp won't help at all (unless you mean receive pre-amp). i'm sure it would with Netstumbler, since it transmits.

in general, nearly any GPS that has NMEA output (which about all of them) should work. you need to take into consideration on how it will physically connect to your laptop/PC (USB, bluetooth, serial port). it sounds more like you are needing mapping software, not wardriving software. you mentioned N...

i spent a lot of time at Crown Center/KC in the early 90's. also saw a lot of live music in Westport area.

NomadicHan: you are correct. we do not want to help you with this.

IANAL (i am not a lawyer), but the legality will vary from place to place. Kismet will never transmit, and as you mentioned, radio should be/is free to listen to. although i have not used them, i think most of the *stumbler variants transmit on all channels to any/all APs that can hear it, and then ...

Driving a given area multiple times is preferable. Driving it all at once is sometimes more convenient. AP's are so cheap now, there are always more of them. Re-driving an area will usually always show more than the last time. Either some sort of mapping software that shows a track where you have be...

Interesting concepts. More or less, it seems like it would work, or at least be more accurate than driving by with an omni. The mechanical problems of orienting the array aside, there would be a few other things that you may need to consider. I would think that this would almost require you using a ...

doctavee, you might find what you want here. Good luck, there is a lot of info there!