Re: Single-app Linux install?
- From: Walter Mautner <leafyes.20.eatallspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:59:17 +0100
Peabody wrote:
As will soon be obvious, I just told you all I know about Linux.Most common liveCDs will be happy to serve.
I have gone wireless for the first time with a new Toshiba laptop
and wireless router, and would like to know who else is in the
neighborhood. I understand that to sniff the access points that
don't broadcast their SSIDs, you have to run Linux - because, for
some reason, only the Linux wireless drivers can put the card into
promiscuous mode.
So, with no offense intended to anyone here, all I really want to do
at this point is run just one Linux application (Kismet appears to
be the one) every now and then. And the question is whether I can
get from here to there (1) at all, and (2) without reinventing the
wheel or messing up my Windows setup.
The laptop is a Toshiba L35-S2171. Celeron M 420, 512m shared ram,
running XP Home. The built-in wireless card has a sticker that says
AR5BMB5, but it shows up in Device Manager as an ,. I
also have an external USB hard drive, formatted in FAT-32, that I
use for backups.
The atheros/madwifi cards are very well supported. Keyboard and USB are no
problem either, with recent liveCDs (knoppix, k/u/buntu ...). There are
some specialized distributions like knoppix "security" edition or
backtrack, where you have kismet and other tools onboard.
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