Archive for the tag 'gps'

Kismet + GPSDrive + MySQL + Python = Google Earth Wlan Map

Last week I decided to build a map of the wireless access point in the Town. It is not really easy to find the right tools, so I decided to write this little Howto.
To archive this goal you need severals tools:

Kismet
First install Kismet. You need a wireless card that support RFMon in monitor mode. I [...]

admin August 18th, 2005

Extract GPS from Kismet log with ElementTree

I have read a lot of noise about ElementTree but never really used it. Tonight i need to extract a bunch of GPS data from a kismet log file. Let’s give it a try
from elementtree import ElementTree

data = open(’Kismet-May-22-2005-4.xml’,'r’).read()

detection = ElementTree.XML(data)

for node in detection.getchildren():
try:
print “SSID: ” + node.find(’SSID’).text,
except AttributeError:pass #hidden SSID
print “BSSID: ” + [...]

admin May 23rd, 2005