Hackathon pics, Installing Kismet on Nokia N810

Ack, I can't believe it's nearly a week since the Google App Engine hack-a-thon and I still haven't written about it. The event itself was fun, informative, and most importantly yielded a t-shirt and an App Engine account. :)

Picasa: photos from GoogleAppEngineHackathon

I'm vaguely visible in the front row in this photo. (behind the red laptop)

More about the hack-a-thon in another post. But I really need to get better at just blurting out what's on my mind, so to avoid week-long lulls on this blog such as you just experienced. :)

Installing Kismet on Nokia N810

• Kismet - A Wi-Fi "network auditing" tool, aka passive sniffer
• Nokia N810 - a Linux-based "internet tablet". Pocket-sized, has Wi-Fi and GPS

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I've always wanted to put these two great tastes together. Last night I finally figured out how, courtesy of Internet Tablet Talk forums:

• Activate RedPillMode in Application Manager, this allows you to see system libraries
• install libraries: ncurses-base and tcpdump
• install "becomeroot" from gronmayer.com/it so "sudo gainroot" works on the local xterm
• Install tz1's .deb build of kismet
• in an xterm, do:
  • sudo gainroot
  • mkdir /media/mmc11/kismet
  • kismet

And it worked! Thanks tz1!