[MLB-WIRELESS] Any suggestions on a Good GPS/wireless, Strength mapper?

[Kim Hawtin]

Kim Hawtin wrote:
> Bryan Pliatsios wrote:
>>>> Now that I have my node up and running (pity I cant find anybody to
>>>> connect to *shrugs*, but them's the breaks), I was hoping that I could
>>>> generate a "coverage" map of my antenna's around the neighborhood.
>> [SNIP]
>>>> Any suggestions  would be Great.  I might even compose a howto if I get
>>>> it working properly.
>>> Kismet and gpsd with a bluetooth gps receiver would be perfect for this
>>> I believe.
>> A useful piece of software is Radio Mobile.
>> I don't think it has been mentioned before, or maybe a verrry long time.
>> It's not a real-world surveying tool, but a modelling package.
>>
>> Check it out, I spend hours playing with it trying to predict long 
>> distance hops and V/UHF converage:
>> http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html
> 
> I can't remember his name, but the guy in MtGambier that wrote the driver for
> the G15 Logitech keyboard for Linux wrote some add ons for gpsdrive that logs
> ESSID and signal strength to a MySQL database to do coverage maps...
> not sure if this is published, but something to look out for. =)
> i need to this around home myself.

Mike sent the url for the howto =) ;
  http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/212.html

I'll have a tinker with this and let you know how we go ;)

Basically you need MySQL server, GPSd, gpsdrive and Kismet.
Theres a little bit of config and you'll need to create the sql
db from the sql source file from the gpsdrive source
(included in debian, not sure about other distros, anybody?)

cheers,

Kim
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