miagi | # 21 | 2007-10-21, 00:54 | Report

Newbie question.....

So I installed both of the required programs (wireless tools and aircrack-ng) but how do I run them ? When installing both, the N800 didnt ask me to specifiy a location where they should be installed to so I can't find the programs anywhere. They are in the application manager but how do I start them there?

thanks,

Phil

zanglang | # 22 | 2007-10-21, 04:24 | Report

They are command line based tools, so you'll need to run them from xterm ('osso-xterm'), with root ('gainroot').

miagi | # 23 | 2007-10-21, 10:25 | Report

it says "not found" when I enter "gainroot". Is there a recommendable, newbie friendly tutorial to xterm ? explaining how to become root, how to run command line applications and all that ?

Thanks

Ar-ras | # 24 | 2007-10-21, 10:29 | Report

how about installing gainroot, to use gainrot?

miagi | # 25 | 2007-10-21, 10:42 | Report

huh ? I thought "gain root!" is a command and not an application.

When searching on Maemo for "Gainroot" it returns the error message

"Applications

There is no result matching the search criteria. Please try again."

luca | # 26 | 2007-10-21, 13:26 | Report

install wireless tools then it's just a matter of
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed

miagi | # 27 | 2007-10-21, 13:40 | Report

What ????

Anyway. I simpy skipped the "become root" step as the "gainroot" command didn't work ("not found") and inserted "airodump-ng wlan0" in the command line. it then said "airodump-ng" not found although wirelesstools and aircrack are installed.
Could someone please help ? Thanks.

miagi | # 28 | 2007-10-21, 17:59 | Report

No further questions after you've solved my problem, I promise

thanks,

Phil

luca | # 29 | 2007-10-21, 18:27 | Report

That is exactly your problem: you need to be root for airodump (and iwconfig) to work.
Find and install the becomeroot package, then the command to become root is
sudo gainroot

barry99705 | # 30 | 2007-10-21, 19:24 | Report

That doesn't work for me.