While at WWDC John and Daniel turned me on to EaKiu. Its a cool piece of software for the Wi-Spy 2.4Ghz USB Spectrum Analyzer. It touts some pretty cool 3D graphs. Unfortunately its OS X only. For Windows you can use manufacturer provided software, and for Linux you can use Dragorn’s software. Which both sport cool and helpful graphs, just not the same 3D eye candy.
At work we just carrying this cool new device, an access point that fits in a wall box. Looks like it would be great for outfitting apartment buildings and/or condos with wifi coverage. It supports all the usual AP/Bridging/WDS, POE, SSL web management etc… Even supports remote syslog and SNMP.
I mentioned in this email a little while back that I released a new Pyramid LiveCD Installer with the 1.0b5 version of Pyarmid. This CD provides a simple method for boot strapping a Soekris net45XX/net48XX single board computer.
Some models accept normal compact flash cards for the operating system media in which case you could easily install an OS image using another machine and compact flash card reader. However some of the models have soldered on flash and on these systems the PXE boot strap method is the only way to install on the board.
Setting up a “PXE boot” environment can be a little cumbersome if you have never done it before. With the LiveCD everything down to the IP address is configured out of the box so you should be ready to flash images onto boards in 5 minutes or so just by following the simple instructions.
Alot of things have happened in 2007 with my company. We completely revamped our online store to start of the year, we have added a ton of new products and we moved in to a new address located on pine in Capitol Hill. June 16th marked an entire year since I left my full time job as infosec engineer in corporate America.
Adam mentioned a mailing list discussion we participated in where I spouted off some suggestions for giving presentations. This is has a slight bent to hacker cons. Funny thing is I am sure I am guilty of quite a few things on that list when it comes to presentation throw down. But eh, I still think they are good.If you want to see the master of hacker con presos see j0hnny talk at least once.
Decided to try and get a friend’s u730 cellular data card working in Pyramid Linux last night. I thought it would pretty trivial since the card appears to use the same chipset as other EVDO/HSPDA cards already supported in the airprime module. But it turns out the device/vendor id combo is not in airprime. This simple patch should fix it for you.
This patch adds vendor/device id combination for the Novatel Merlin u730 hspda
card. Tested with a cingluar branded card.
Signed-off-by: Ken Caruso ken@ipl31.net
diff –git a/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c b/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c
index f2ca76a..00fa8b2 100644
— a/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.c
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ static struct usb_device_id id_table []
{ USB_DEVICE(0×1410, 0×1430) }, /* Novatel Merlin XU870 HSDPA/3G */
{ USB_DEVICE(0×1410, 0×1100) }, /* ExpressCard34 Qualcomm 3G CDMA */
{ USB_DEVICE(0×413c, 0×8115) }, /* Dell Wireless HSDPA 5500 */
+ { USB_DEVICE(0×1410, 0×1400) }, /* Novatel Merlin U730 HSDPA/3G */
+
{ },
};
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(usb, id_table);
So we are at hacknight messing with some old Arlan 630 900mhz wireless access points we got off ebay. Our goal is to upgrade them to the “bridging” firmware so the devices can talk to each other and not just client cards.
On a side note the boxes were bought off ebay. The access points came with a configuration already on them:
ARLAN 630 V4.2C Configuration Ident Menu da521ap2
Option Value Description
1 - Name [ “da521ap2″ ] - Node name
2 - Nid [ 00409610b998 ] - Network address
3 - Inaddr [ 030.117.028.034 ] - Internet address
4 - Inmask [ 255.255.255.000 ] - Internet subnet mask
5 - Ingateway [ 030.117.028.001 ] - Internet default gateway
6 - Location [ “” ] - SNMP system location
7 - Contact [ “” ] - SNMP system contact name
Enter an option number or name, “=” main menu, previous menu
>
Hmm 30.117.28.34…
ken@averacrap> whois 30.117.028.034
OrgName: DoD Network Information Center
OrgID: DNIC
Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
City: Columbus
StateProv: OH
PostalCode: 43218
Country: US
NetRange: 30.0.0.0 - 30.255.255.255
CIDR: 30.0.0.0/8
NetName: ARPAX25-TEMP
NetHandle: NET-30-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
Comment: Defense Information Systems Agency
Comment: Washington, DC 20305-2000 US
RegDate:
Updated: 2002-10-07
OrgTechHandle: MIL-HSTMST-ARIN
OrgTechName: Network DoD
OrgTechPhone: +1-800-365-3642
OrgTechEmail: HOSTMASTER@nic.mil
Poke a little deeper in the configuration…
ARLAN 630 V4.2C SNMP Communities da521ap2
public - Read Only, Any NMS IP address, Any NMS NID
proxy - Read Only, Any NMS IP address, Any NMS NID
private - Read Only, Any NMS IP address, Any NMS NID
regional - Read Only, Any NMS IP address, Any NMS NID
core - Read Only, Any NMS IP address, Any NMS NID
barney - Read-Write, Any NMS IP address, Any NMS NID
Enter space to redisplay, q[uit] :
barney, cute.
Myself and Matt will be doing a workshop at Toorcon 8. It will be a one day workshop covering the basics of boot strapping an embedded wireless device ( Soekris based ) and setting up a wireless mesh using OLSR. Participants in the class get an embedded wireless device from my company Metrix that they take home with them in addition to learning the skills required to continue hacking on it. Pre-registration ends this Friday and is currently $1200, after Friday it will be $1500 at the door any open seats will likely sell out fast. There are currently 5 seats left. If you have a group of people (3-5) interested, we might able to get you group discount ( email me: ken at ipl31 net ). But you need to act before Friday midnight!
After hacking on a 