Wardriving Setup

Here is how to build your own wardriving setup:

Here is my checklist:

- Laptop :)

- High power wireless card (200mw or higher)

- High gain omni antenna 15dBi (choose the correct cables & connector to your wireless card)

- USB GPS receiver

- Fedora 12

- Google Earth

- Kismet New-Core

Kismet New-Core comes with a new log format, so all the old tools used to convert kismet logs to Google Earth format is not valid anymore, the only tools I know that work with th new core are GISKismet or netxml2kml

I like the GISKismet tool, as it has some nice features:

- Eliminate duplicate APs, in case you have several log files.

- Filtering AP before exporting logs

- Filtering AP before generating kml file

- It uses a database (sqlite3), giving you great flexability for whatever queries you need, such as top SSID used, Encryption statistics, channels usage distribution,.....etc