hi, > I'm really f*cking impressed. It picked up 30 AP's, and I did the same > trip the night before in Linux on the same machine with Kismet, and I > think it picked up six or seven? > > Wierd, I wouldn't imagine the power levels would be any different, but > its the same laptop/card. i dont know what could cause this. did you ever try a bsd? because the viha driver is based on those. another thing that i could imagine is the fact that the linux driver are a little bit messy so something might get dropped. > Two things I'd love to see is automatically saving the AP list - I had > it logging into a pcap file which ethereal read perfectly, but I lost > the AP list (so now that I've gotten out the car I don't know what AP's > I got *g*)... something I always liked with netstumbler was loading a > previous list, so I could gain a huge list of every AP I've ever > stumbled. The other is having the IP range if found displayed on the > main screen. Apart from that, its awesome, especially considering its > an alpha release :-) ahm there is an open/save function in the file menu.... and you can reimport your pcap file. but huge lists are not a good idea in kismac, because it slows it down a lot. i will add ip range detection later. > I successfully compiled the new kernel (Mac OS X seems faster now too - > wierd) it is optimized and a newer release, so there might be a real gain. > , and closing the lid occasionally causes my entire powerbook to > turn off - anybody know about heat issues with the 500mhz units? > Leaving the unit on for say a hour with the lid closed won't cause any > major issues? > mick