I am testing several setups with MANY WiFi cards in Linux (debian). I have not tried to push past 8 WiFi cards of a single chipset prior to today. In the past hour I have tried to exceed 8 cards for a single WiFi chipset and I have noticed that the system will not acknowledge the existence of any ca...

I promised to put a snapshot of my test rig... here it is. http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/007osint/IMGA0566.jpg The system, currently has 8 miniPCI cards in it. I know.. only 4 antenna. The other 4 holes need to be put on the chassis, still. http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/007osin...

I am the member of a 5 person group that performs wardriving quite extensively while on travels for work, etc. I don't directly contribute to wigle, but the data I provide is put into a group file (from everyone) and one of my teammates submits the information to wigle and other sites. In 18 months ...

I am not bragging about using an expensive software package that you can't use... or afford. I didn''t know the pricing on it, and don't care, to be honest. I looked it up after your post and you are focusing on the expensive version, anyway. There are others available. The fact that someone made it...

No, not with the WhirlWind team. Sorry to bust your bubble on that. I work for a company that received a test version and have enjoyed using it. So, yes, the price can be bad for a regular person. It is priced for commercial interests right now from my understanding. I have a pre-release test versio...

I built a new rig this weekend and have it working pretty smoothly right now... It contains 4 internal miniPCI cards through a PCI-to-miniPCI converter card. Hooked antennas up to each miniPCI card, plus I have hooked up 3 USB sticks for use, as well. I use a simple USB "hockey puck" gps d...

WiFido: I recommend you use PCI-to-miniPCI cards inside the box to allow you to utilize many cards if necessary. I already have a rig that will allow for 8 cards using two PCI slots. You can buy PCI-to-miniPCI cards that hold 2, 4 or even 8 miniPCI Wifi cards. You will probably only be able to handl...

There are several modes of thought on this. 1. Buy an expensive GPS... that must make all things better (not necessarily true) 2. Buy an inexpensive GPS, and it will do what I need for most of the drives, but risk the chance of inaccurate coords or missed coords. 3. Come up with a method to use most...

I agree that wardriving the typical way is less accurate with a powerful antenna, but a powerful antenna has a very good use when wardriving. Consider driving through a big city such as New York or Beijing. On the ground a weak antenna is going to miss most networks that are in high buildings unless...

I highly recommend using a Toshiba Libretto in a very small backpack or waist pack when doing war walking. I have used a hockey-puck like GPS and all works pretty well. If you have the tools/money... a PC-104 build works nice, too. I don't recommend using a Windows cell phone unless you are able to ...

You are right. It is not wardriving when you are collecting non-beacon traffic. I consider it monitoring. I use this method to collect traffic within my own network and watch what is going on. If properly setup, a company is allowed to do this with their own WiFi network, and an individual has the r...

Since my last post, I have obtained and tested the Gold version of WhirlWind. This version allows for collection of traffic plus mapping of networks. It's just too simple. You not only can lock onto a channel, but the user is able to lock on to a given BSSID, as well. This allows collection of only ...

Sory... forgot to put this in the original post

http://www.youtube.com/wifiwhirlwind

I received a plausible solution this morning to test for easy setup and use for Wardriving. I have been working on getting a lot of folks together to perform wardriving and having all data sent to Wigle. I found a build called WhirlWind on the web, specific for wardriving. I just finished testing th...