• AsusEEE

The Asus EEE PC 7XX and 9XX come stock with

• 802.11b/g Wi-Fi mini PCI express card: Atheros AR5BXB63
• Xandros Linux

Until there is a stable distro with stable drivers for the Atheros here is how to get Kismet running on a stock EEE

• Switch over to Advanced Mode by following the steps at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde

• Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list

  • ####Only uncomment when grabbing deb packges not in the officail

    ###repos.Never upgrade with this uncommented.

    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

• Close the file and do an update

  • sudo apt-get update

• Install Kismet

  • sudo apt-get install kismet

• Install GPSD if you need

  • sudo apt-get install gpsd

• Edit /etc/kismet/kismet.conf to add

  • source=madwifi_g.wifi0,wifi0

• While you are in there enable the gps if you have one set up

  • gps=true 

• Close the file
• Set up two scripts to run , one to run Kismet and one to Reset the wireless config to run for normal use

  • vi kismetup.sh 

    sudo wlanconfig ath0 destroy
    sudo kismet

    vi kismetdown.sh

    sudo wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta