In need of advice from experienced drivers.

[Guest]

I have a Dell Inspiron 5150, Orinoco Gold B/G combo card, 7.5 dbi gain mounted antennae (on roof of car) and am using netstumbler on WinXPpro.

Now, I plan on submitting my war drives to the database, but I realize this requires GPS. Do I need to hook up a GPS to my computer, and if so, which type (the cheaper the better) would be most compatible with my operation?

Links are welcome, as is multiple suggestions.

Regards

[bobzilla]

Almost any gps will do, as long as it has an interface for your computer. If you have a serial port, usb, or pcmcia, there are gps's out there that'll give them data. Make sure the GPS speaks NMEA (i've never seen one with a computer interface that doesn't).

[pejacoby]

I've been happy with my Garmin eTrex Legend. I use it with my iPaq 5450.

I'd really like to find a good BlueTooth-enabled GPS, but they seem to be less common in the US.

[dskkgkfmgkf]

thanks for the info.

any cheap GPS that will still give me fairly accurate readings and functionality with netstumbler?

regards

[arkasha]

is what i use.

note that this requires a 2.6 kernel + a little patch under linux, and the serial emulation drivers to work with netstumbler (for now).

http://trans.civil.northwestern.edu/~jay/gpsd.html
http://geocities.com/i0xox0i/

[bhoberg]

Honestly, most GPS's will do fine. I use an old Garmin GPS-12, old as hell, but it gets the job done and is configurable. You can get the newer ones which are awesome as well or if you are just looking to wardrive, you probably can pick up a GPS-12 or GPS-12XL for cheap.
-Brian.

[mbstone99]

I use an old Garmin E-Trek that I bought off Ebay and it works like a charm. I would also suggest using Streets & Trips 2005 as well as using a program like GPSGate which lets you split the Com Port making 2 virtual ports allowing you to record the GPS data in Netstumbler as well as track where you have driven.

Matt
http://www.wdontario.com/

[DrSeuss]

Check out Altina Mounse GPS. www.altina.com.tw you should be able to pick one up off ebay for $35 with shipping. I'v had no problems with it in any OS, XP, OS X Panther and Tiger, Linux Slackware, Knoppix Auditor from remote-exploit.org. First actually piece of hardware that was PLUG and PLAY not plug and trying and figure out what the hell is wrong and not working then after 6 hours play.

[israel]

I use this one: Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator
http://www.microsoft.com/streets/Produc ... px?pid=001

Dell 700m / 2915ABG / MS USB GPS / NetStumbler
http://www.chroniclesofawardriver.org/w ... units.html

[themacuser]

I use a USGlobalSat BU-353 - works great with KisMac.

[mark571]

I use a USGlobalSat BU-353 - works great with KisMac.

I also use the USGlobalSat BU-353. I just purchased my second one. It uses the SiRF Star III chipset. I can pull into my garage and still keep a 3D lock. It's the same guts/chipset as the Holux 236. They use the PL-2303 driver. Works great in Kismet, KisMac, and Netstumbler.