Everybody have a mobile phone right now, and me too :) I just bought a nice little phone from my DSL provider. They offer a good deal for new users like me: Free phone when you call wired phone (or SIP) thought a Wifi connection, and pay at normal rate when you use the GSM [...]
admin June 2nd, 2007
I read on several websites, that some people managed to wire a SD Card (or a MMC) to a Fonera access point. After a little googling, I discover this can be done easily, so I decided to test.. but I run into one issue so I decided to describe the process here.
Here the finished result:
Let’s [...]
admin May 18th, 2007
This year, for my birthday I have a very nice Media Player M3100. This stuff is really usefull, no need to use a noisy computer to watch recorded Divx. It’s pretty kool to watch films from beds you know..
The only issue: I need to take it back to my computer when I want to upload [...]
admin April 5th, 2007
I already done a AMOS Antenna before but I need to build another one. A bit more robust. I decided to use a N connector, a bit of plumbing.. and here is the result:
This stuff, is quite robust right now ;) .. and still have a great gain.
Please note that there is some new AMOS [...]
admin June 5th, 2006
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
I spend a little time to write an article on the Brest Wireless website about various hack to add a connector to a PCMCIA, or USB card.
You can find it out here
a PCMCIA:
a USB one:
– Enjoy :)
admin July 22nd, 2005
This is perhaps one of my best homemade antenna.
I found the original design here: http://yu1aw.ba-karlsruhe.de/Amos.pdf
You can find my construction guide on Brest Wireless website at
http://www.brest-wireless.net/wiki/materiel:amos
My conclusion:
First:
Take care of this antenna, I broke the first balun while testing :(
and the balun is the hardest part to do
Tests :
13db of gain
and a really big beam 120° !
the [...]
admin July 7th, 2005
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
After the omnidirectionnal antennas, and the can-antenna, here comes the new one:
This is a biQuad, and a double-biQuad antenna. You can find the construction guide (in Fr) here.
As usuall the photos is in the Brest-Wireless gallery
The small one is about 11/12db .. and the biggest one: ~ 14db !!
Update: Fix links
admin April 19th, 2005
I decide to launch a new wireless antenna collection. Here is my new homemade one.
You can discover all photos here, and the construction guide
admin April 5th, 2005