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« on: January 03, 2004, 12:53:03 pm »
I did some work on the latest version of kismet_qt (2.0). It uses /dev/sharp_buz to generate beeps. Someone reported to us just before release of 2.0 that this wasn\'t working on the clamshells. Since neither myself nor Justin (the author) have a clamshell (yet!), we couldn\'t develop a solution for the clamshells. Do the clamshells still have a buzzer device? If so, if someone knows how to use it, we could probably implement this and make a new release.
If the device has simply been renamed, I wonder if it\'s possible to make a symlink to the new one? Might be worth trying.
One final idea: just before the 2.0 release we considered adding a script call in which the \"beep\" could be implemented (but we ended up not doing so). Some background for those who don\'t know: kismet_qt 2.0 uses external scripts to implement things like turning the card on/off and changing channels. When you select a \"scheme\" on the config tab, you are actually just selecting a script to execute. Look in /etc/kismet_qt/card_schemes to see what I mean. These scripts are called with a command (such as \"startup\"). We could add another command such as \"beep\". This would allow folks to implement the beeping in any way they like via the script. This should be only a simple change if folks think it would be useful.
~ray