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Mark

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Topic # 128 21-Jan-2003 22:25
Now here's a touchy subject :-) Who here hunts out Wi-Fi hotspots ? What tools do you use ? Have you found any ? And have you gained access due to bad WiFi implementations ? I've got an Ipaq 5450 waiting for me at home (why do the toys always urn up when you're away ?) and I think I'd like to have a little try of some of the war driving applications ... just I've never done it before and don't really know how well they work :-) Mark

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Reply # 15 21-Jan-2003 22:46
Hmmm... Where are you located? I think you're moving to New Zealand, aren't you? I'm sure I saw a website about war driving in Auckland and Wellington... I've not tried it myself, but I don't have wi-fi in my PPC

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Reply # 16 21-Jan-2003 23:02
Well I'm in the UK at the moment (Reading to be precise) and yes I am moving to NZ ... hurray! Don't suppose you have the links to those war driving sites do you ? Think it would be interesting reading. Regards Mark

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Reply # 23 22-Jan-2003 22:22
Where are you planning to live here? The following site contains Wellington statistics: CATEGORY TOTAL PERCENT TOTAL APs FOUND 9374 100 WEP Enabled 2825 30.13 No WEP Enabled 6549 69.86 Default SSID 2768 29.53 Default SSID and No WEP Enabled 2497 26.64 Unique SSIDs 3672 39.17 Most Common SSID 1778 18.97 2nd Most Common SSID 623 6.65

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Reply # 59 11-Mar-2003 16:22
Mark you might want to pickup an Orinoco card, and a New Hp PCMCIA+ pack then. The Hp545X will not work with any wardriving software, with the built in software. MiniNetStumbler, has been ??Shut down?? no active development going on. The New Hp drivers do to a name change do not work with it. The Heat has been turn up in Canada, so it maybe sometime before you see any updates that work. Also do to some odd choices Hp made the WLAN card is not set up correctly, in the USA version. So one must edit the registry to even get it seen correctly. David

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Reply # 106 21-Mar-2003 01:57
Ok you have a 545X and you want to wardrive? You'll need a Registry editor to change a line in your registry Change HKLM \comm\vnetmini\Linkage Route to vnetmini1 Then download this program to your PC and run it. Note this is a prerelease, and may not be stable! http://www.pocketwarrior.org/PocketWarriorSetup.exe More info in the http://forum.pocketwarrior.org/viewtopic.php?t=83 David