Kismet Compatible USB 802.11g?
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:00 pm
Greetings,
Are there any USB 802.11g adapters that are compatible with Kismet under Linux? I thought I had found a list that included a couple such adapters some time ago but now I can't find it.
At present, I have been using the built-in Airport Extreme antenna on my mac laptop sitting in the passenger seat, but I am working on setting up a permanent in-car computer (so I can scan more or less everywhere I drive with a minimum of hassle), and I would really like to use USB wifi adapters for this.
I have two reasons for this: I will be starting out with one adapter for cost reasons, but I would like to end up having four adapters all running in Kismet at the same time. My strategy for this would be to have three of the adapters dedicated to channels 1, 6, and 11, since they are the most frequently used channels, and the fourth adapter hopping between 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10 to pick up those who have strayed from the 1-6-11 bandplan. Since the old (PC/Linux) laptop I will be using for this project only has 2 PCMCIA slots, it seems that USB will be the only way to pull this off.
Also, initially, I am probably just going to place the usb adapter(s) in the rear window area, but eventually, I would like to hook up some external antennas. I am handy with the soldering iron and I have seen that most USB adapters are (relatively) easily modifiable to include an external antenna pigtail. It is my understanding that even good-quality RF cable has significant loss in the 2.4GHz band, so another advantage of using USB adapters will be that I can position the adapters very close to wherever I end up having the antenna cables enter the vehicle, which will allow me to minimize the RF cable length.
So, any ideas?
Thanks,
DrDeke
Are there any USB 802.11g adapters that are compatible with Kismet under Linux? I thought I had found a list that included a couple such adapters some time ago but now I can't find it.
At present, I have been using the built-in Airport Extreme antenna on my mac laptop sitting in the passenger seat, but I am working on setting up a permanent in-car computer (so I can scan more or less everywhere I drive with a minimum of hassle), and I would really like to use USB wifi adapters for this.
I have two reasons for this: I will be starting out with one adapter for cost reasons, but I would like to end up having four adapters all running in Kismet at the same time. My strategy for this would be to have three of the adapters dedicated to channels 1, 6, and 11, since they are the most frequently used channels, and the fourth adapter hopping between 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10 to pick up those who have strayed from the 1-6-11 bandplan. Since the old (PC/Linux) laptop I will be using for this project only has 2 PCMCIA slots, it seems that USB will be the only way to pull this off.
Also, initially, I am probably just going to place the usb adapter(s) in the rear window area, but eventually, I would like to hook up some external antennas. I am handy with the soldering iron and I have seen that most USB adapters are (relatively) easily modifiable to include an external antenna pigtail. It is my understanding that even good-quality RF cable has significant loss in the 2.4GHz band, so another advantage of using USB adapters will be that I can position the adapters very close to wherever I end up having the antenna cables enter the vehicle, which will allow me to minimize the RF cable length.
So, any ideas?
Thanks,
DrDeke