Raspberry pi wardrivers?
Hey, i am in the works on my wardriving Raspberry Pi rig.
I am reading a book called Kismet Hacking by Brad Haines and Frank Thornton, and from it i have learned a lot, but i wanted to come in contact with other RPi wardrivers that may have some additional pointers for me on how to get up running with the Raspberry Pi.
Have a great day guys.
I am reading a book called Kismet Hacking by Brad Haines and Frank Thornton, and from it i have learned a lot, but i wanted to come in contact with other RPi wardrivers that may have some additional pointers for me on how to get up running with the Raspberry Pi.
Have a great day guys.
I use a raspberry pi, there is nothing different between a raspberry pi and a full linux pc/laptop, regarding the setup.
Thanks for your reply.
I saw this video on youtube, and i thought that it would be cool to do a little bit of reverse engineering on it. I would like to have one of my own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJvloXv0dc
Any ideas?
I saw this video on youtube, and i thought that it would be cool to do a little bit of reverse engineering on it. I would like to have one of my own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJvloXv0dc
Any ideas?
I'm currently in the middle of getting one setup as well. I had a space Pi B Rev 1 laying around and decided to put it to use... or at least try to without having to buy a new Pi.
I got one of these to help auto shutdown the Pi when the car powers off. https://mausberry-circuits.myshopify.co ... ply-switch
Haven't installed it in the car yet, but tested it with a 12V power supply and it seems to work exactly like I want. I want it to power the Pi on when the car starts and gracefully shutdown the Pi when the car powers off.
Also, without using a screen or LCD of some sort, I wanted a way to get some feedback of how my Pi is currently doing while driving. This board: https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/br ... rry%20clip and this script: https://github.com/Wardriving-for-Raspb ... iwardrive/ look like they should be able to give some good info about how my GPS and Kismet are doing.
I think I have the main control script sorted out how I want it. It basically tries to make sure no other networking stuff is running to interfere, manually restarts GPSd and then starts kismet. Once I close kismet, it compresses the output files to be ready for uploading. It's not very smart, just sequentially runs each command without checking conditions first. I'm not good at getting fancy with scripts, though I would like to. Here it is just in case anyone wants to build upon it.
This doesn't do any auto uploading or anything like that. I'll still have to take my SD card out manually and upload it. But if I do that once a week, that's fine with me.
I got one of these to help auto shutdown the Pi when the car powers off. https://mausberry-circuits.myshopify.co ... ply-switch
Haven't installed it in the car yet, but tested it with a 12V power supply and it seems to work exactly like I want. I want it to power the Pi on when the car starts and gracefully shutdown the Pi when the car powers off.
Also, without using a screen or LCD of some sort, I wanted a way to get some feedback of how my Pi is currently doing while driving. This board: https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/br ... rry%20clip and this script: https://github.com/Wardriving-for-Raspb ... iwardrive/ look like they should be able to give some good info about how my GPS and Kismet are doing.
I think I have the main control script sorted out how I want it. It basically tries to make sure no other networking stuff is running to interfere, manually restarts GPSd and then starts kismet. Once I close kismet, it compresses the output files to be ready for uploading. It's not very smart, just sequentially runs each command without checking conditions first. I'm not good at getting fancy with scripts, though I would like to. Here it is just in case anyone wants to build upon it.
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#!/bin/bash
NOW=$(date +"%F-%H-%M")
CURRENT_RUN=/home/pi/kismet/current_run
ARCHIVE=/home/pi/kismet/Archive
echo "::: Killing dhclient and networking"
sudo killall dhclient
sudo service network-manager stop
echo "::: Done killing. For now..."
echo "::: Sorting out GPS bits..."
sudo service gpsd stop
sudo gpsd -n /dev/ttyUSB0
echo "::: GPS should be sorted now."
echo "::: Starting Kismet"
#kismet_server --daemonize &
#sleep 2
kismet
sleep 1
echo "::: Telling server to shutdown"
echo -e '\n!0 shutdown' | nc localhost 2501
cd $CURRENT_RUN
echo "::: Compressing..."
tar -cvzf $ARCHIVE/kismet-$NOW.tar.gz $CURRENT_RUN/Kis*
#sleep 2
echo "::: Cleaning up..."
rm -v $CURRENT_RUN/Kis*
#sleep 2
echo "::: Here's $CURRENT_RUN"
ls -lah $CURRENT_RUN
echo "::: Here's $ARCHIVE"
ls -lah $ARCHIVESo I went and improved my script a bit. I made this in /home/pi/kismet and named it run_kismet.
Next I add "@reboot /home/pi/kismet/run_kismet" to crontab -e.
Currently the script does not check for existing directories, so you'll have to make them first and configure your own /etc/kismet/kismet.conf. Also I've not tested it beyond my workbench here. It does have a USB GPS and USB WiFi units attached and appears to be working properly, but please look through the script and be cautious, yadda yadda yadda.
I know when I was looking at taking on this fun project, having a script to start and stop things properly was one of the things I wanted to make sure works properly. Coupled with the shutdown circuit, it appears to work right and I hope it helps someone else too.
Here's the shutdown circuit I got: https://mausberry-circuits.myshopify.co ... ply-switch
I added the call to shutdown kismet (echo -e '\n!0 shutdown' | nc localhost 2501) to the circuits script, along with a 'sleep 10' to give it time to shutdown and compress the files.
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#!/bin/bash
#KroniK's Bash Template
#Version 1.0.3
#https://github.com/KroniK907/KroniKsBashTemplate
#Copyright (c) 2014 Daniel Kranich
#Licenced under MIT
#======================================================================#
#======================== Notes ========================#
#======================================================================#
#======================================================================#
#======================== Default Functions ========================#
#======================================================================#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Set Inital Variables
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
NOW=$(date +"%F-%H-%M")
WORKING_DIR=/home/pi/kismet
CURRENT_RUN=/home/pi/kismet/current_run
ARCHIVE=/home/pi/kismet/Archive
LOG="$WORKING_DIR/log/log.log"
ERRLOG="$WORKING_DIR/log/err.log"
#Dont touch these
VBSE=false
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to display a verbose output when the -v option is set
#
# This function is basically pushed to echo, so all rules of echo
# apply.
#
# This function accepts 2 arguments:
# 1) This is what you want to log/display to console. Make sure it
# is in quotes.
# 2) This is an alternate log location if you wish to push the
# above argument to a second log.
#
# Example:
# log "ls -la /home/" "/var/log/otherlog.log"
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
log() {
Date=$(date "+%F %T")
Text="$1"
Log2="$2"
if [[ ! -n "$D" ]]
then
echo "$Date: $Text" >> "$LOG"
else
echo "$Date: $Text" >> "$LOG"
echo "$Date: $Text" >> "$Log2"
fi
[ "$VBSE" == true ] && echo "$Text"
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to log any errors and exit if fatal error
#
# This function should only be called by the error_check function
# found below.
#
# Accepts 2 arguments:
# 1) string containing descriptive error message
# 2) if second argument exists, then the error is fatal and the
# script will exit.
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
error_log() {
Date=$(date "+%F %T")
#Name of last program run
Progname=${0##*/}
Fatal="$2"
echo "$Date ${PROGNAME}: ${1:-"Unknown Error"}" 1>&2
echo "$Date ${PROGNAME}: ${1:-"Unknown Error"}" >> $ERRLOG
if [[ -z "$Fatal" ]]
then
exit 1
fi
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to check if the previous comand was completed
# succesfully
#
# This function can be followed by 2 arguments:
# 1) A discription of the error. If none exists it will list as an
# "Unknown Error"
# 2) If a second argument is given, then the script will exit upon
# loging the error. This argument can be literally any string
# you wish (it only matters if a string exists) however for
# clarity I usually use "FATAL"
#
# Example:
# error_check "The previous command failed" "FATAL"
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
error_check() {
if [[ "$?" != "0" ]]
then
error_log "$1" "$2"
fi
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to print the help display
#
# This is called by the -h flag in getopts below
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
help_text() {
echo "-v toggles verbose output"
echo "-h shows the user how to use this script"
echo "-x toggles bash -x output for debugging"
exit 1
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to wait for GPS Fix
#
# Calling this will make things pause until gpsd reports
# that "mode:3" has been achieved.
# mode:3 indicates at least 4 reliable satellites have
# been locked onto, giving a 3D location.
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
gpswait() {
gpspipe -w | tr -d '"' | grep --line-buffered -m 1 "mode:3"
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to print SUCCESS in color
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
success() {
printf "[\033[32mSUCCESS\033[0m]\n"
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to print FAILURE in color
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
failure() {
printf "[\033[31mFAILURE\033[0m]\n"
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to give colorful feedback
#
# Simply calls functions success or failure based on
# if the command completed successfully or not.
#
# Use: try command
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
try() {
result=$($* 2>&1)
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
failure
echo $result
# exit 1
fi
success
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Function to give colorful feedback
#
# Same as the try function, but will exit the script
# if the command fails.
#
# Useful for commands that need success for the
# script to continue.
#
# Use: try_fail command
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
try_fail() {
result=$($* 2>&1)
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
failure
echo $result
exit 1
fi
success
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Get any flags from the user
#
# Accepts 3 arguments:
# -v toggles verbose output
# -h shows the user how to use this script
# -x toggles bash -x output for debugging
#
# check man getopts for info on how to add more options/arguments.
# There is also a good getopts guide here:
# http://rsalveti.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/bash-parsing-arguments-with-getopts/
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
while getopts :vhx opt
do
case $opt in
v) VBSE=true;;
h) help_text;;
x) set -x;;
:) echo "Missing Option Argument for -$OPTARG" >&2; exit 1;;
*) echo "Unknown Option: -$OPTARG" >&2; exit 1;;
esac
done
error_check "getopts-failed" "FATAL"
#======================================================================#
#======================== Script ========================#
#======================================================================#
main() {
sleep 10
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Stopping gpsd service\e[0m"
try sudo service gpsd stop
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Killing any remaining gpsd instances\e[0m"
try sudo killall gpsd
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Starting gpsd\e[0m"
try sudo gpsd -n /dev/ttyUSB0
sleep 2
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Restarting NTP to set time from GPS\e[0m"
try sudo service ntp restart
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Waiting for GPS 3D fix\e[0m"
#echo "First"
#gpspipe -w | grep -m 1 '"mode":3'
#echo "Second"
try gpswait
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m GPS should be sorted now.\e[0m"
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Stopping dhclient\e[0m"
try sudo killall dhclient
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Stopping network-manager\e[0m"
try sudo service network-manager stop
#echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Done killing. For now..."
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Starting Kismet\e[0m"
kismet_server
#sleep 2
#kismet
sleep 1
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Sending extra shutdown command to Kismet to be sure\e[0m"
echo -e '\n!0 shutdown' | nc localhost 2501
sleep 2
cd $CURRENT_RUN
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Compressing...\e[0m"
try tar -cvzf $ARCHIVE/kismet-$NOW.tar.gz Kis*
#sleep 2
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Cleaning up...\e[0m"
try rm -v $CURRENT_RUN/Kis*
#sleep 2
#echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Here is $CURRENT_RUN"
#ls -lah $CURRENT_RUN
echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Here is $ARCHIVE\e[0m"
ls -lah $ARCHIVE
#sleep 1
#echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Restarting normal WiFi networking."
#sudo service network-manager start
#echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m wlan0 down/up"
#sudo ifconfig wlan0mon down && sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
#echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m dhclient wlan0"
#sudo dhclient wlan0 &
#echo -e "\e[36m:::\e[0m \e[1m Done. Normal wifi should be restored."
}
main "$@"
exit
Currently the script does not check for existing directories, so you'll have to make them first and configure your own /etc/kismet/kismet.conf. Also I've not tested it beyond my workbench here. It does have a USB GPS and USB WiFi units attached and appears to be working properly, but please look through the script and be cautious, yadda yadda yadda.
I know when I was looking at taking on this fun project, having a script to start and stop things properly was one of the things I wanted to make sure works properly. Coupled with the shutdown circuit, it appears to work right and I hope it helps someone else too.
Here's the shutdown circuit I got: https://mausberry-circuits.myshopify.co ... ply-switch
I added the call to shutdown kismet (echo -e '\n!0 shutdown' | nc localhost 2501) to the circuits script, along with a 'sleep 10' to give it time to shutdown and compress the files.
@clickwir
What distro do you use on the Pi?
Which kismet version do you use?
Thx!
What distro do you use on the Pi?
Which kismet version do you use?
Thx!
Regards, WiFi-Freak
I'm using Raspbian. Raspbian is Debian Weezy based, I found that it had an older version of Kismet. So I upgraded to the Raspbian version of Debian Jessie. I think all I really did was change "weezy" to "jessie" in my /etc/apt/sources.list file and run an upgrade.
Thanks for sharing clickwir !
I have installed Arch Linux as I was told that this distro is the fastest for the Pi.
I like the idea of Kai Kretzberg's ScanBox:
http://kaikretzberg.de/?p=1636
I realy like to know how he did the upload thing:
If someone can help me with this file upload thing please let me now.
I have installed Arch Linux as I was told that this distro is the fastest for the Pi.
I like the idea of Kai Kretzberg's ScanBox:
http://kaikretzberg.de/?p=1636
I realy like to know how he did the upload thing:
I tried to contact the author of the ScanBox with serval mails but did get no respond.All files will be transmitted automatically to attached USB devices. It also synchronizes all files which were created before. If you don‘t plug in any USB device, the ScanBox will store files in a local folder. After booting the Box with a pen drive plugged in, it will start synchonizing your database.
The interval between saving is 300 seconds by default.
If someone can help me with this file upload thing please let me now.
Regards, WiFi-Freak
Hey guys,
I'm currently planning a permanent "WiPi" installation. I want to mount a Raspberry Pi Model B, Alfa USB WiFi adapter, and a USB GPS in the trunk of my car and basically leave them there full time. I want the Pi to boot up and launch Kismet whenever the car starts, and then gracefully shut down then the car is shut off. In addition, if the car is parked in my garage, I want it to automatically connect to my WiFi AP and upload all new Kismet files captured since the last upload.
I'm thinking of using a PicoPS DC-DC ATX power supply from Mini-Box - overkill, I know, but I happen to have one lying around that I'm not using. The GPS antenna is magnetic mount and waterproof, but I'm looking for a solution for the WiFi antenna. Ideally I could find a no-holes-drilled trunk lip mounted WiFi antenna that's omnidirectional, has reasonable gain, and a RP-SMA connector to plug into the Alfa. Any suggestions?
I'm currently planning a permanent "WiPi" installation. I want to mount a Raspberry Pi Model B, Alfa USB WiFi adapter, and a USB GPS in the trunk of my car and basically leave them there full time. I want the Pi to boot up and launch Kismet whenever the car starts, and then gracefully shut down then the car is shut off. In addition, if the car is parked in my garage, I want it to automatically connect to my WiFi AP and upload all new Kismet files captured since the last upload.
I'm thinking of using a PicoPS DC-DC ATX power supply from Mini-Box - overkill, I know, but I happen to have one lying around that I'm not using. The GPS antenna is magnetic mount and waterproof, but I'm looking for a solution for the WiFi antenna. Ideally I could find a no-holes-drilled trunk lip mounted WiFi antenna that's omnidirectional, has reasonable gain, and a RP-SMA connector to plug into the Alfa. Any suggestions?
https://mausberry-circuits.myshopify.co ... 1327900328Hey guys,
I'm currently planning a permanent "WiPi" installation. I want to mount a Raspberry Pi Model B, Alfa USB WiFi adapter, and a USB GPS in the trunk of my car and basically leave them there full time. I want the Pi to boot up and launch Kismet whenever the car starts, and then gracefully shut down then the car is shut off. In addition, if the car is parked in my garage, I want it to automatically connect to my WiFi AP and upload all new Kismet files captured since the last upload.
I'm thinking of using a PicoPS DC-DC ATX power supply from Mini-Box - overkill, I know, but I happen to have one lying around that I'm not using. The GPS antenna is magnetic mount and waterproof, but I'm looking for a solution for the WiFi antenna. Ideally I could find a no-holes-drilled trunk lip mounted WiFi antenna that's omnidirectional, has reasonable gain, and a RP-SMA connector to plug into the Alfa. Any suggestions?
Regards, WiFi-Freak
Thanks for that link - I'd never seen that one before. It's a lot cheaper than the M3-ATX, too. 
Is there any alternative for those Mausberry car switches? On both of them it says that there sold out and it's not possible to order them at the moment. 
I certainly understand the desire to do things "properly" and shut the box down nicely, but my experience with logging Kismet to SD or USB with EXT4... it just doesn't matter. It may behoove you to create a separate "aligned" partition table entry for the log storage, and pass along -E stride,stripe_width parameters during filesystem creation (assume erase block size of 128k at _minimum_). But hundreds and hundreds of power-cycles on EXT4 *unjournaled* filesystems, I still haven't had a problem that required me to fsck or otherwise fix. EXT4 seems to recognize when it powered down while writing and makes the directory read-only, so my boot script does this:
I also considered the idea of the auto-upload, but not seeing a fool-proof way to automate, I settled for swapping USB sticks into an extension cable for now.
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if [ -d "/mnt/log" ]; then
i=1
while [ -d "/mnt/log-$i" ]; do
i=$(($i + 1))
done
mv /mnt/log /mnt/log-$i
mkdir /mnt/log
cd /mnt/log
kismet_server --daemonize &> /dev/null
fi
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IMEI 004999010640000Anyone looking for an easy way to nicely poweroff the pi should look into this: https://github.com/claudiodangelis/unplug2shutdown
I set it so that when I remove my wifi adapter, the rpi shuts down.
I also copied that script and created another one that when I connect a specific wifi adapter (ath9k_htc, the best for creating an ap), it starts hostapd and udhcpd on that wlan, so I can connect to my pi wirelessly and retrieve data/edit configs.
I set it so that when I remove my wifi adapter, the rpi shuts down.
I also copied that script and created another one that when I connect a specific wifi adapter (ath9k_htc, the best for creating an ap), it starts hostapd and udhcpd on that wlan, so I can connect to my pi wirelessly and retrieve data/edit configs.
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