Benoit's techie blog http://localhost/please/edit/me The place I use to share techie stuff, mostly Linux and Mobile en-us Benoit Begue 2011-02-09T17:30:51+00:00 http://localhost/please/edit/me/archives/2011/02/09/additionnal_thoughts_to_run_piratebox_on_other_configurations/index.html http://localhost/please/edit/me/archives/2011/02/09/additionnal_thoughts_to_run_piratebox_on_other_configurations/index.html Additionnal thoughts to run Piratebox on other configurations 2011-02-09T16:30:38+00:00 Benoit Begue The script is only tested on a eee 901 at the moment but works nicely. It lacks a proper start/stop script (help needed).
It is pretty easy to understand by following the steps of the scripts, edit "install" and "piratebox" to understand the steps.

The things that you can change to make it work on other laptops/linuxes :

  • replace apt-get package with another distro tool and package name.
  • for hostapd.conf, and dnsmasq.conf change the interface name from wlan0 to whatever your wireless interface is.
  • for hostapd.conf change the driver name to something else as needed by your wireless network card.

And it should work on a lot of other laptop devices running Linux :)

]]> http://localhost/please/edit/me/archives/2011/02/09/first_release_of_piratebox_for_laptops/index.html http://localhost/please/edit/me/archives/2011/02/09/first_release_of_piratebox_for_laptops/index.html First release of Piratebox for laptops 2011-02-09T14:43:23+00:00 Benoit Begue This page will explain how to install the Piratebox on a laptop. The scripts are currently made only for a Asus eeePc 901 running Ubuntu 10.10 (my configuration).
I'll explain later how to adapt the scripts to another Linux based configuration. The credit for the Piratebox is due to David Darts and other people cited on his pages.


Step 1: Installation using NetInstall script

From a user home directory, issue those commands:

wget http://mimibubi.dyndns.org/netinstall_piratebox.sh
[chmod +x netinstall_piratebox.sh]
./netinstall_piratebox.sh

This will take care of the installation, asking you for administrator rights at some step. You should then have a piratebox directory in your home directory.


Step 2: Launch the piratebox

To launch the piratebox, simply browse to the piratebox directory:

cd ~/piratebox
[sudo] ./piratebox


Step 3: Stopping it

There is no proper script to start/stop the piratebox yet. Help would be wellcome to create a proper /etc/init.d script ;)

You have 2 choices here:
1: reboot as the changes are not persistent, your laptop will be unmodified after a reboot
2: write those 2 lines in the terminal. Beware as killing python may kill other software on your computer:

sudo killall python hostapd
sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop


Discussion and improvements

For french speaking people, there is a dedicated thread on the Blogeee.net forums to discuss here. For english audience, David Darts already offers one to discuss improvements and optimizations. Look at the comments on this page.
You can also talk to me on Twitter and I'll probably write new blog posts here as the project improves.


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Setup scripts to install Piratebox on a Linux computer by Benoit Bégué is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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