[ Wi-Fi ]



Where possible, items are listed by alphabetical order.  No preference 
is given in any rankings.





[ Communities & Maps ]

 x http://www.freenetworks.org/

 o http://www.toaster.net/wireless/community.html Wireless Community listing.

 o Linux WLAN Community Project.

 o NYCWireless.net New York project aiming to spread public wireless network access.

 o http://www.warchalking.org/ and what those funny symbols mean.

 o http://www.wi-find.com/ Limited maps of open WAPs.  Searchable by ZIP code.

 o http://wifinder.com/ Yet Another Searchable Database.

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[ Cool Resources ]


 o Awesome Linksys FAQ

 o Anatomy of Wireless, from Network Computing.

 o "Fun With The WAP11" "...with a little bit of effort, you can turn the "normal" 
   [Linksys] WAP11 into an Access Point with suprising range and power, by simply 
   telling it's radio to output a stronger signal."

 o Linux Wireless Tools.  Also by Jean Tourrilhes, and also sponsored by HP. 

 o Linux WLAN Howto.  By Jean Tourrilhes, sponsored by HP. 

 o Measuring power consumption of wireless cards.

 o O'Reilly's Recipe for home wireless networking.

 o http://www.wardriving.com/ Don't use networks that aren't yours!

 o http://www.wirelesscentral.net/ Ton of wireless equipment for order.

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[ Software... ]
 
[ ...for ORiNOCO Cards ]
 o AirSnort.  Decrypts WEP keys.  Linux.  Also: Cisco Aironet cards and Prism2 cards.

 o Airsnort; Orinoco Monitor Mode Patches.  Linux.

 o NetStumbler.  Windows.
   See also: StumbVerter.  Imports NetStumbler data files, outputs to Microsoft
   MapPoint to plot your findings.

 o WaveMon.  Linux 2.4 Kernels w/wireless extensions by Jean Tourrilhes.


 
[ ...for Prism2 Cards ]
 o Aerosol.  Windows.

 o AirJack.  Linux.  Spoof MAC, APs, etc.

 o AirSnort.  Decrypts WEP keys.  Linux.  Also: Cisco Aironet cards and Orinoco cards.

 o AirTraf.  Linux.

 o ApSniff.  Windows 2k only.

 o BSD Airtools.  For *BSD systems.

 o Fake AP, from Black Alchemy.  Generate thousands of fake Access Point 
   beacon frames.  Linux.  Warning: Expects Redhat.

 o Prism2 / host AP drivers.  Use Linux as an Access Point.

 o Kismet.  Linux.  Also handles cards supporting standard packet capture 
   via libpcap (Cisco), and limited support for cards without RF Monitor support. 

 o Pizza's misc. patches for Linux.

 o prismdump.  Add-on for ethereal.

 o ssidsniff.  Discovers access points / saves sniffed traffic.

 o Wellenreiter.  Also Hermes (ex. Lucent) cards and Cisco/Aironet cards.  Linux/BSD.

 o WaveStumbler.  A "console based 802.11 network mapper for Linux."

 o Wepcrack.  Linux.  Briefly predates AirSnort.

 o WLAN Expert.  "WLAN Expert is a wireless client utility designed to work with 
   the PRISM chipset."  Windows.


 
[ ...Multi-card supportive ]
 o AirTraf.  Linux.  Prism2 and Cisco.

 o PrismStumbler.  Linux.  Prism2 & ORiNOCO.  Does a little of everything.  Works with AirSnort. 

 o WiFiScanner.  "It can dump traffic in realtime (like tcpdump) and you can change 
   interactively the sniffed channel. Work with Cisco card and Prism card (with linux-wlan-ng 
   and hostap driver)."


[ ...for Macintosh ]
 o MacStumbler.  No relation to NetStumbler.  Nifty WEP features.


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[ Hardware Devices... ]
 
 [ ...Kensington ]
WiFi Finder
 o Kensington's WiFi Finder is a handheld, portable WiFi detector 
   that removes the need for a portable or laptop to discover wireless networks.

 
[ ...Sharp Zaurus ]
 Wireless Specific:
 x taalgaard's Zaurus wireless resources.  Excellent page!

 General:
 o http://www.myzaurus.com/ Buncha Zaurus resources.

 o Unofficial (the best kind!) Zaurus FAQ.

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[ Security ]

 o WEP Security Analysis from Berkeley (incl. the kickass Dr. Ian Goldberg).

 o "An Inductive Chosen Plaintext Attack against WEP/WEP2", William A. Arbaugh, 
   University of Maryland, College Park.

 o "Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP", Adam Stubblefield (Rice 
   University), John Ioannidis & Aviel D. Rubin (AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ)

 o IBM's prototype Wireless Security Auditor.  Handheld PDA style hardware device.

 o umd.edu's Wireless (in)Security page.

 o SLAN.  What's all the above mean?  What can you *attempt* to do about it?


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[ Services & /dev/random Stuff ]

http://www.unstrung.com/.Great site on the wireless industry.

http://www.cafe.com/

AiroPeek.  Windows/Orinoco, pay.

http://www.t-mobile.com/hotspot/  Formerly Mobilestar.  Now under the newly 
branded (and annoying) T Mobile, formerly Voicestream (east coast, for all 
the left coasters) which is the US arm of some .de telco.  "Wiring" all the 
Starbucks'.












 
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