Set up a Raspberry Pi with Kismet

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Having had good results with experimentally wardriving (#2), I see that better software is necessary. Kismet on macOS is a non-starter, and I think it would be better in the long run to use a Raspberry Pi. (I'd be happy to hand that off to somebody else to stick in their car and drive around with for a few days — not so with my laptop.)

[x] set up a Raspberry Pi with a Linux distro
[x] install Kismet
[x] configure the Pi to use the USB WiFi receiver
[x] configure the Pi to use a second USB WiFi receiver
[x] configure the Pi to use gpsd
[x] configure Kismet
[x] set it to runlevel 3 (a GUI is unnecessary)
[ ] ensure that Kismet won't log anything other than SSIDs and their location (i.e., won't join networks)
[x] run Kismet, headless, on boot
[x] save an image of the configured SD card, to facilitate recovery or reproduction
[ ] create a deploy script that can be loaded via cURL and piped into Bash, so that somebody can trivially stand up a copy of this

There are some good instructions here.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Looks like Kismet can be run as kismet_server --daemonize at boot time.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Looks like @reboot in root's crontab is the way to start up Kismet on boot.

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