portagrinder, my beastly buddy ;D
 

Lol, that's great. What's the battery life on that beast...if they had invented batteries back when that thing was created? :-P I assume you have the Orinoco card, and the necessary applications for decrypting WEP keys?

hell yeah all kinds of networking apps also.

the battery doesn't work, i have an AC-DC power inverter

orinoco gold baby

a pringles can / a soup can / and a 3 dbi avaya vehicle antenna mounted on my car roof.

Ah, yes, power inverter...very good. You should get some advanced stuff going with triangulation of locations of these access points :-P. I'm not sure of the specs of the Orinoco Gold card offhand, but you should get an A+G card, so you can hop on 802.11a, b, and g access points.

Also, you should document all of it really well...with access point locations, 802.11 standard used (a, b, or g), encryption type (and key, if applicable), LAN IP network, ISP, WAN connection speed, nodes on LAN, NAT and AP hardware, and anything good on LAN. You could sell a package deal, with a marked street map, and the guide with the information, hehe. It'd be 1337.

again if i could afford an A+G card or whatever i would probably have one :)

As for documentation, thats all covered, I'm borrowing a friends GPS which is hooked up to that lappy right there through serial so i know exactly where everything is. The LAN addressing scheme is another given, a lot around here are DHCP for obvious reasons( where i live no one knows anything computer related except the kids ), if not DHCP I normally have a packet scanner running to keep an eye out for internal ip's of that network. i don't really document the ISP but if its handy that goes too. I do, however, use a couple online bandwidth meters to check the speeds and thats also written down. I get key networked machines ip's and all of the AP's MAC's and their locations(GPS) with an open source version of netstumbler.

A good idea that i've been pondering on is making some sort of database and a script. heres my proposal:

in the database for each location:

name or location
MAC of the AP
router or NAT device
WEP key
dhcp or internal address


create a script that does the following:

GPS output is read and identified as name/location within the database
reads and displays the name or the location on the laptop
enables the WEP key if any
grabs dhcp or if none, picks up an internal address specified in database.
applies the AP to the current wireless device ( orinoco )
applies the default gateway


sadly this probably is beyond my scripting skills for one thing.. and I'm not sure how to jump the first obstacle of the script, reading the output from the GPS. anywho its not top priority by any means, i'm actually trying to get a personal website together, and scripting that is bothersome enough. I'm no programmer, thats for damn sure.

hahahaha

look firmiliar?

P1-100 40M Simm

Win95 though. In the future, It'll be my documentation machine. I wrote some software (PHP). Got Apache and mySQL loaded on it, ready to document the PC's I repair. Although I still have a little bit more of the software to write

I now there's another verison of the notebook with a CD-rom and TFT AMX screen. Not sure which one you have since I can't see the model # (get a better camera :P )

mines a 110CS :)