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List:       kismet-wireless
Subject:    Re: [KISMET] Kismet Config Suggestion
From:       Mike Kershaw <dragorn () nerv-un ! net>
Date:       2002-07-31 22:10:32
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Right - so it tries to connect to gpsd, fails, and doesn't log GPS.

I do this on my laptop constantly - I run kismet w/out gps when I'm testing
or out and about.

-m

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 05:48:40PM -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> I did a standard ./configure
> 
> This enabled the compiling of GPS.  However, I don't have gps, and the
> .conf file is configured for GPS by default.
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:57:55 -0400
> "Mike Kershaw" <dragorn@nerv-un.net> wrote:
> 
> > Kismet will start fine if you have GPS support turned on and no gps - it
> > just can't connect to the gpsd server, and continues.  i do this all the
> > time on my laptop.
> > 
> > I beleive I made it a non-fatal condition to request GPS when gps
> > support has been explicitly disabled in the compile, but if you're doing
> > custom feature disabling in the compilation then I'd expect you to be
> > advanced enough to adjust the configuration file accordingly.
> > 
> > The only condition I could see maybe being fatal is if you specified a
> > bad gpshost string or a hostname that doesn't exist.  localhost should
> > exist on every system, which is the default.  Even then, I'm not sure if
> > those are treated as fatal conditions - they may just be warnings.
> > 
> > -m
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:56:41PM -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > > I just got and RPM'ed up Kismet 2.4.  I've attached the .spec file if
> > > anyone is interested since the RPM was done on Caldera OpenLinux.  I
> > > build RPM's with the express intent of making OpenSource software easy
> > > to get and work well with the least amount of tweaking.
> > > 
> > > The one thing I noticed about Kismet is that since I don't have gps,
> > > kismet doesn't work out of the box.  I can understand the desire to
> > > have GPS and high-level functionality work without reconfig, but I
> > > would suggest that it is equally important for us low-life non-gps
> > > users to be able to use kismet out of the box as well.  Is there a way
> > > that Kismet could just not use GPS if gps is not available, instead of
> > > just not starting at all?  Or perhaps just disable GPS in the config
> > > by default.  I like the first option better.
> > > 
> > > Just a suggestion.  You guys are doing a great job, and I appreciate
> > > Kismet a great deal.  I have come to appreciate all the work Kismet
> > > saves me from having to do, as well as the configureability!  I love
> > > how many different ways I can use it depending on what I want to do!
> > > 
> > > Just thought you might like some feedback from the fray.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > Matt
> > 
> > -- 
> > Who says dragons never dream?

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