On this page • • • • • • • • • • Wardriving Using An Ubuntu Notebook With Garmin Etrex, Kismet, And GPSDrive This tutorial is about wardriving using GPS. It explains how to install Garmin Etrex on Ubuntu and how to configure it. It also shows how to use Garmin with GPSDrive and how to convert the data to an xml file which can be imported by Google Earth. Status () • Ubuntu 5.10 'The Breezy Badger' • Kernel 2.6.12-9 • Garmin Etrex Camo Hardware To connect the Garmin Etrex with my notebook (Sony Vaio TR5MP) I needed a serial cable and a USB converter.

You can order the cable and the converter. Software preparation As first you have to download few tools that we are going to use later. • gpsd • gpsdrive • kismet Download these packages with apt-get: # sudo apt-get install gpsd # sudo apt-get install gpsdrive # sudo apt-get install kismet Plugin Garmin and prepare gpsd I had a couple of problems with configure Garmin.

From now on I would like to read the data under Ubuntu but. How can I read GPS data under Linux? But I recently tried to configure a usb gps puck on linux. Want to install Ubuntu but don't. There’s also a graphical way to prep your USB drive for Linux installation How to Boot a Linux Live USB Stick on Your Mac. How can I use my Garmin device in Ubuntu? Or perhaps use a Linux exercise software option. If I install it (and also make sure python-usb is installed).

First plug in only the converter. You can check it with dmesg if the converter was recognised. # dmesg [4300] mct_u232 1-2:1. Change Imei Iphone 4s Music there. 0: MCT U232 converter detected [4300] usb 1-2: MCT U232 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 The converter should now be attached to ttyUSB0, which we use later to start gpsd. Now turn on the Garmin Etrex and wait until you have a good signal and plug it in at the converter. You can now test if Ubuntu recieve data from Garmin.

# cat /dev/ttyUSB0 Now you can start gpsd. # gpsd -p /dev/ttyUSB0 To test if you recieve data you can connect to gpsd over telnet and type 'r'. It should print out some data. Type 'r' again to stop it # telnet localhost 2947 Trying 127.0.0.1. Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'.

R GPSD,R=1 $GPRMB,A,,,,,,,,,,,,A,A*0B $GPGGA,0.4356,N,,W,1,06,1.4,45. Do Data.grf Ragnarok. 5,M,-27.8,M,,*4B $GPGSA,A,3,,06,15,16,,21,22,,29,,,,2.9,1.4,2.5*36 $GPGSV,3,1,09,03,18,315,00,06,41,152,44,15,61,323,34,16,27,271,35*7C $GPGSV,3,2,09,18,82,255,00,21,65,038,41,22,43,233,37,26,31,058,00*74 $GPGSV,3,3,09,29,23,046,37*4C $GPGLL,3748.4356,N,,W,050726,A,A*59 r GPSD,R=0 quit There is one problem I couldn't solve. When I close a application that used gpsd I couldn't use gpsd agin until I restarted gpsd. I also have to plug out Garmin and plug it in again. There was a message in dmesg: [4300] drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c: MCT USB-RS232: unsupported baudrate request 0x0, using default of B9600 If someone has a solution for this please let me know.

Run Kismet Kismet has to work if you have a Cisco 350 Series Card you might have a look at this howto Edit following entries in /etc/kismet/kismet.conf with your favourite editor: gps=true waypoints=true waypointdata=~/.gpsdrive/way.txt Save it and exit. Prepare GpsDrive In order to use GpsDrive with Kismet we have to change some settings. GpsDrive is able to save the waypoints in a SQL-Database.