Hello all, I'm the author of SLapASS. Please *DO* forward any questions to me you have-- I'll try my best to answer them. Email me at kcurrie@undertow.2y.net
SLapASS really IS a simple program-- if you're having problems with it bring open a shell (embeddedKonsole) and run it with tracing:
sh -x /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/SLapASS
..and see what errors you get.
For it to work, assuming you want to use the Kismet functionality you need to have a *working* Kismet configuration. For just using it to switch between preconfigured networks kismet isn't required.
I've got my Z all jacked up with all kinds of programs but I tried to make sure that nothing I have as standard on mine but non-standard elsewhere crept into the program.
As for why it doesn't show up as an installed package on the Sharp rom-- I have no idea, as from what I've read there is no difference between an OZ ipkg and a Sharp ipkg. I built the packages mostly manually as well, just using tar, gzip and md5sum.
To my great surprise there has been ~450 downloads in the last 10-11 days, so apparently there is SOME interest there, although I've only recieved a few emails about it.
I personally got sick of having to manually reconfig my networking under OZ all the time because the Oz network app can't seem to store multiple configs-- even though it has a dropdown box which would appear to offer that functionality...
SLapASS actually was just a simple offshoot of another program I'm writing, and I thought it'd be useful to write it in just /bin/sh so it'd run just about anywhere (except for the Opie-SH requirement). If there is interest, I could *possibly* hack it to work either WITH Opie-SH or just as a command line app. The other program I'm writing has basically the same functionality as SLapASS and only runs via cmd line, but is written in perl, which I'd assume most people don' t have installed.
..if there was a half-deceit replacement to Opie-SH that could be used as a frontend as easily as Opie-SH I'd be thrilled to use... anybody know of such a thing?
I found a bug in SLapASS today yesterday while waiting to go into surgery-- if it fails to associate it tells you so and then tells you it associated :-) Instead of "break" I should have had "exit 1" on that line... a new version should be up soon.
Any other features people would like?
Out of curiosity the other day I also hacked up a simple script which varies the volume of the Z according to the wireless strength. Why you ask? So you can listen to something like a wave file or mp3 and determine if you are getting farther away from an access point or closer without having to look at your Z (or even have if visable) :-)
I've got a ton of other stuff I just haven't bother to package up or even drop in my bin directory too.... stuff like swapd which is a swap daemon which creates swapfiles as required and deletes them when done... works pretty good on the Z for creating swapfiles in the ram disk.... other stuff like a patched proxychains, various hacking tools, etc.
If anybody wants anything really cool out there, please let me know :-)
