Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How To Install Kismet on Windows

Step One:


1.1 Download Cygwin setup from
Cygwin.com and start the installer.

1.2 Follow the instructions and install the default system. Warning: This can end up taking of a couple gig on your drive. Feel free to figure out what isn't needed and let me know.

1.3 Under Development, add the following packages to be installed:
gcc
libtool
make

Under libs, add the following:
libncures
libncurses-devel

Under Utils, add the following:
patch
patch-utils
tzcode time

1.4 Let the installer do it's thing until Cygwin is installed

1.5 Start Cygwin and once you get a prompt type the following to setup cygwin so the compiler can see your local windows users:

mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -l > /etc/group

Step Two:


2.1 Download the GPSD 2.30 tarball

2.2 Untar the GPSD tarball with the following:

tar -zxvf gpsd-2.30.tar.gz

then copy the cygwin-2.diff file into the newly created gpsd-2.30 directory

cp cygwin-2.diff gpsd-2.30

2.3 Now we need to patch the GPSD source so that Cygwin can compile. Switch into the gpsd directory and patch the source:

cd gpsd-2.30
patch <>

You should see the following, if you don't try again from the beginning:

patching file configure
patching file gpsd.h
patching file serial.c
patching file sirfmon.c

Now we can start compiling GPSD with:

./configure
make
make install

Provided you have installed all the packages nessecary, GPSD should compile with a minimal amount of complaining.

Step Three:

3.1 Depending on your GPS reciever, there may be some changes nessecary to running GPSD. However with my limited testing, I've found you should be able to get by with just the following:

./gpsd /dev/comX

Where 'X' is the number of the com port your reciever is hooked up to (com1, com2, etc).

3.2 Provided your reciever is outputting NMEA sentences and has a fix, you can test GPSD quickly through telnet:

telnet localhost 2947
Once connected, type 'r' for raw mode

You should be seeing GPS NMEA strings go flying by. If you don't, double check your reciever and port.

Step Four:

Provided GPSD is reading the strings, there should be no major changes required to Kismet to get it to work. Just make sure that the kismet.conf file is setup to use a GPS (it is by default), and make sure GPSD is running before you start Kismet and you should see the coordinates on the screen

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