Wardriving and the Powerbook G4

topic posted Sun, April 25, 2004 - 11:15 AM by  JDog
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Hello all....

My girlfriend and I have to travel for work rather extensively, and sometimes we're only in a given location a few weeks - makes getting dsl/cable rather unwieldy. I've taken to wardriving a bit with my G4 Powerbook, and have had some reasonable luck (using Kismac and MacStumbler). Checking email and mapquest from behind a gas station in Reno is pretty groovy....

Problem is, we're currently in a place with limited signal strength to a couple of open (non wep/non wap) networks. How can I improve this? Is there a way to easily add an external antenna to the G4? Or am I stuck going after an aironet card and adding an antenna to that?

I've also got an Airport Extreme with antenna port - anybody know if I can run Kismac through the Airport so I can get some gain off an external antenna?

Thanks for the help - you can see, I'm a relative newbie to this...but it's cool!
Jason
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JDog
Colorado
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    Re: Wardriving and the Powerbook G4

    Wed, May 12, 2004 - 3:14 PM
    I use a usb Belkin adapter for my wardriving fun. Fished the usb cable through the carpet and seat and tacked it to the underside of the roof. Wouldn't necessarily recommend belkin cause their mac drivers suck something fierce, but it works and its cheap. I've got the f5d6050.

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