YEP, I have the 6500 Zaurus and KISMET really rocks on it. The problem is
that the Zaurus OS only supports 802.11b. You can see 802.11g, but it's has
issues with anything stronger than WEP. Forget 802.11n. I tried with
little luck. BUT KISMAC works very well....

> From: "Ivan ." <ivanhec (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]>
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:34 +1100
> To: "pen-test (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]" <pen-test (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>
> Subject: Re: Smart-phone for pentester
> Resent-From: <pen-test-return-1078490475 (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>
> Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:45:48 -0600 (MDT)
>
> Anyone remember the Sharp Zaurus?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus
> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?submenu=zaurus/zaurusheader&page=zaurus/za
urusma
> in
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BMXmCO7k24wJ:www.ir
ongeek
> .com/i.php%3Fsubmenu%3Dzaurus/zaurusheader%26page%3Dzaurus/zaurusmain+ir
on+gee
> k+sharp+zarus&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a
>
> I did much the same with a nokia n800
>
> I had that badboy running, nmap, kismet, hping, dsniff and a few other
> goodies with no issues on processing power or alike. So I don't see
> why these new smartphones would have any issues with 1GHz processors
> and 512MB RAM ..
>
> cheers
> Ivan
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:07 AM, The Doctor <drwho (at) virtadpt (dot) net [email concealed]> wrote:
>>
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>> On 10/10/2010 09:43 PM, Kevin L. Shaw, CISSP, GCIH wrote:
>>> I've heard of Metasploit and Nmap on Android; I don't remember if
>>> rooting was required. There are a couple cool wifi discovery apps
>>> for Android out there, I use them cursorily on C&A engagements.
>>
>> I have used Wifi Analyzer (from the Android Store) a bit; it is okay but
>> a bit lacking if you are used to something like Kismet.  There is also
>> an application called WiGLE WiFi in the Appstore which is supposed to be
>> a more featureful wireless auditing application; I have it installed but
>> have not yet tried it.
>>
>>> Having used BackTrack 4 on an Asus Netbook with 2 GB RAM; and not
>>> being overly pleased with performance; I feel you need better
>>
>> Installed or from a USB device?  That made a difference on my EeePC 900.
>>
>>> resources than those a mobile may provide.
>>
>> I am inclined to agree with you on this; mobile phones are not designed
>> to provide the kind of processing power that laptops and netbooks are.
>> Their power cells were also not really designed to provide lots of power
>> for long periods of time (say, when running CPU intensive applications).
>>
>> - --
>>
>> The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
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