| RenderMan | Gpsd on Cygwin for Kismet V0.1 | Last Updated: 10/19/2005 1:37:28 PM | |||||||||
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| This guide is a supplement to the Kismet on Windows Under Cygwin guide, and is still in Beta, if you find errors or omissions, send corrections to render (AT) renderlab (DOT) net. For a while now it's been possible to run Kismet under windows using Cygwin. However it has not been useful for a wardriving setup because of the lack of support for getting GPS data into kismet. Gpsd would not run under Cygwin and ESR (lead developer of GPSD) has no desire at all to see it work. So with the kind donation of a patch from Goldfndr of the netstumbler forums, we can no get GPSD running under Cygwin for Kismet. This guide requires Windows 2000/XP, a Modified Linksys WRT54G, basic networking and Linux knowledge, as well as some experience with Kismet. This guide was tested with the Cygwin v1.5.18-1 release from July 2nd 2005, Kismet release 2005-08-R1, and GPSD 2.30. Using other versions, your mileage may vary. Please send changes or bug reports for other versions. You cannot run Kismet on Windows without Cygwin You cannot run Kismet on Windows with *ANY* wireless card, only Kismet Drones work Cygwin will not suddenly allow you to run all Linux software. It's capabilities are limited This guide assumes the following: Windows 2000/XP is installed and updated The Linksys WRT54G router is modified according to these instructions Administrator access to the system to be installed on A wired network connection Step One: 1.1 Download Cygwin setup from Cygwin.com and start the installer. 1.2 Follow the instructions and install the default system (I have neither the time nor the interest to figure out exactly what's needed, however, I will note packages I know are needed). Warning: This can end up taking of a couple gig on your drive. Feel free to figure out what isn't needed and let me know. 1.3 Under Development, add the following packages to be installed: gcc libtool make Under libs, add the following: libncures libncurses-devel Under Utils, add the following: patch patch-utils tzcode time 1.4 Let the installer do it's thing until Cygwin is installed 1.5 Start Cygwin and once you get a prompt type the following to setup cygwin so the compiler can see your local windows users:
Step Two: 2.1 Download the GPSD 2.30 tarball from http://download.berlios.de/gpsd/gpsd-2.30.tar.gz and the patch from the file library up top of this page. 2.2 Untar the GPSD tarball with the following:
then copy the cygwin-2.diff file into the newly created gpsd-2.30 directory
2.3 Now we need to patch the GPSD source so that Cygwin can compile. Switch into the gpsd directory and patch the source:
You should see the following, if you don't try again from the beginning:
Now we can start compiling GPSD with:
Provided you have installed all the packages nessecary, GPSD should compile with a minimal amount of complaining. Step Three: 3.1 Depending on your GPS reciever, there may be some changes nessecary to running GPSD. However with my limited testing, I've found you should be able to get by with just the following:
Where 'X' is the number of the com port your reciever is hooked up to (com1, com2, etc). 3.2 Provided your reciever is outputting NMEA sentences and has a fix, you can test GPSD quickly through telnet:
You should be seeing GPS NMEA strings go flying by. If you don't, double check your reciever and port. Step Four: Provided GPSD is reading the strings, there should be no major changes required to Kismet to get it to work. Just make sure that the kismet.conf file is setup to use a GPS (it is by default), and make sure GPSD is running before you start Kismet and you should see the coordinates on the screen. Impressions/Conclusions/Errata This patch and how-to is specific to GPSD v2.30. It will probobly not work on furure versions, however it's enough for our purposes and should be a viable solution for a while. If you want to use the GPS across multiple programs (i.e. Netstumbler, Kismet and 'Streets and Trips'), I highly recommend spending the ~$30 on a piece of windows software called GPSgate. It does a fantastic job of replicating GPS data into multiple virtual com ports for use by different applications. It's GPS simulator can also be useful for indoor testing when you can't get GPS signal. This patch is provided as is and has no guarantee of working. This guide will be updated when new information becomes available, but it's only a guide, you might have to do some hacking of your own to get it to run on your specific setup. Many thanks to Goldfndr for the work on the patch to make this all possible. All credit should go to him. Sources: Most of this guide comes from my own research and Goldfndr at the Netstumbler forums | |||||||||||