View Full Version : Laptop - Accessing a cloaked ap?
Magician
08-11-2006, 11:52 PM
Has anyone tried accessing a cloaked ap via a laptop. I am looking at converting all my client ap's to cloaked in the 2.4 due to noise and sniffers. The only way I can think of is as below.
I have a cm9 in my laptop. I yanked the Intel out the day I bought it. I run XP with vmware. I have mac/os and linux as vm-sessions. I could load v3 x86 on a vm session and tell the host os to leave the cm9 alone. Then bridge the vm session back to the host os. What do you all think?? I use a ip phone on my laptop that ties into my cisco phone system at my office.
Just a thought..:)
ninedd
08-12-2006, 12:07 AM
What we did with V2 is this.... We originally carried around a laptop, and a WRAP, and an Ethernet cable, and putty'd into the WRAP to get at StarOS that way. Pretty standard.
Then, we got bright. Bought an old Pentium 266 Laptop with 128MB Ram, and installed StarOS right on it. Boot it up and it IS a native StarOS machine and the best StarOS Site Survey tool around.
Of course, we don't yet know what exactly V3 X86PC will be installable on, but there would be some older laptop that's a fit, and I'm looking forward to seeing if we can do the same.
Magician
08-12-2006, 12:13 AM
The only thing I am lacking now is ability to access cloaked ap. When I replaced the m-pci with cm9 I added a longer pigtail so I can go on roof etc with laptop and external antenna.
ninedd
08-12-2006, 12:17 AM
Well, we did it with a low tech P266 laptop and installed Star directly on the HD. The way I understand it, Star can't be run in any dual boot type configuration, but I don't know about vmware - that'd probably work. In any case, we figurd that when the laptop get's dropped off the roof, we'd rather it be a old P266 than a P4-3ghz :)
Magician
08-12-2006, 12:23 AM
I have taken this laptop everywhere, dell 6000 with 2gb ram . I lease two old bellsouth towers 250' with platforms topside. I have had several lunches atop with my laptop. But I was thinking if i could get this to work I could site survey and benchmark locations prior to installation. I go out on surveys by my self so the less to carry the better. I have run v2 via vm session to test routing etc but never bridge the wireless card.
mp3turbo
08-12-2006, 02:11 PM
I don't think you can use wireless card in VM at all.
I'm not able to. [vmware 5.5]. VM just does not see it.
vmware workstation does not provide direct access to hardware, it provides emulated "virtual hardware"
Magician
08-12-2006, 10:00 PM
I use vm server exp build 22009 and I can access my wireless