Recently I decided to do a bit of WarDriving (mapping Access Points) and bought a cheap but very easy to install GPS receiver (GlobalSat BU-353) on Amazon.com, so I put together this quick guide for wardrving. This is only one of the many ways of doing wardriving, for this article I chose Netstumbler for detecting the Access Points, but there are other tools out there, that can do the job more effectively, I personally like wifihopper, who unlike netstumbler identifies the type of encryption been used by the Access Point. Another tool for detecting AP is Kismet, but this one only works in Linux, and all of this tools mentioned have support for a GPS receiver.

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