whilst i dont want to discuss the very iffy aspect of wardriving as its illegal and a iffy topic to discuss

so im asking connection questions

i have ministumbler installed on my ipaq, driving around it finds all sorts of signals, a short drive up the shop just now found 15

some had padlock signs on them some amber lights some green etc


how do i physicly connect ? i think i enabled auto connect, but when i stopped at a green location and then clicked explorer or msn messenger it cant conect or find the webpage?

once a location is found do i have to stop it scanning?

how do i get online with it?

ie setting up my wireless lan wifi thingy on my ipaq according to the findings of netstumbler etc

 

someone must now about networking and configuring etc?

basically configure a wireless ipaq to a access point, what is needed and how is it done?

 

There's nothing illegal about wardriving. But what you're doing is.

 

im not doing anything thats the point lool

is it really that hard to set up as i cant find fook all how to do it

 

All netstumbler/ministumbler will do is show you what access points are around, it won't enable you to connect to them.

To connect to an access point you'll need specific IP settings (unless the AP has dhcp enabled), an SSID and possibly passwords. Even then you might not be able to connect if they have mac filtering enabled.

 

atlast someone with a bit of know-how

surely the information required to be entered for a conection would be displayed by ministumbler?

i remember last night it displays ssid and ip but al the ones i saw no ip was shown, oh and the channel to was displayed, most were channel 11

 

hmmn i stumbled on a ap and played fopr a bit, done a soft reset on the ipaq and loaded up wireless and created a standard profile and it gave a signal and internet was established?


why does a reset make that possible?