[MLB-WIRELESS] Microstumbler- standalone wifi card hack

[clae at tpg.com.au]

Picked this one up from the hackedgadgets blog.  They point out that if this works,  it   
makes a cheap general purpose dev platform for wireless hacks beyond just stumbling.   
   
Clae.   
    
http://www.prism54.org/mustumbler.html     
     
What's Microstumbler ?     
     
The Microstumbler project is aimed at adding autonomous network scanning capabilities    
to a wireless card ; that's to say, your can scan wireless networks using just your wifi card  
and no computer : a LCD and a simple 3-key keypad are connected to it, and it's powered  
by a battery. This hack is in theory compatible with all hardware that contains an ISL38xx  
chip : PCI and PCMCIA SoftMAC and FullMAC cards, and USB version 1 and version 2  
devices. All you need to be able to is to electrically power up the device outside of a  
computer, and tap two easily locatable signals on its circuit board !     
  
Is it working now ?  
  
 No, the software part is not finished yet.