On Jul 14, 4:07 pm, fred <
kbc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Getting Karma working can be a pain. Karma relies on modified madwifi
> kernel modules. Kernel modules need to be compiled against the source of
> the running kernel. Karma is a 2006 package that listens for wireless probe
> attempts (usually from laptops) and broadcasts SSID responses back. So if
> you are looking for "Free WIFI" or linksys, karma becomes those. Karma is
> a hack, not well maintained but a blast once you get working. Once clients
> connect to karma it does a number of things:
> 1) dhcp server assigns private address space by default 169.254..
> 2) starts dns and reports back to clients all dns to itself
> 3) starts web server (from which you could have you webslice hacks or
> outlook web portal or ...)
> 4) starts a samba server (with modded samba all smb shares point back to
> you)
> 5) starts ftp server
> Karma is written in ruby and does external calls to the services