Aircrack running on a Zaurus C1000

Posted Jul 22nd 2006 3:00AM by Eliot Phillips
Filed under: downloads hacks

The Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 is one of the handful of PDAs that Sharp has released preloaded with Linux. With it's full qwerty keyboard it's pretty easy to use any program intended for a full size Linux box. Reader [Sonicvanajr] decided to make a video of his new toy doing a few tricks. Namely, running Aircrack-ng (key to WEP cracking) and MDK2. He compiled both using the OpenEmbedded tools. If you are looking for one of these tiny Linux boxes you might wan to try for the older 5500 model which was sold in the states. The OpenZaurus project is the distro of choice even though it does have a surprisingly steep learning curve for being on a fixed hardware platform.

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1. I have a zaurus C3100 but it did not come with any wifi adapter. I assume that the adapter in the video supported passive mode as well as packet injecting. I would love to know the MFG and Model # for that card.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by KClaisse

2. A great site on hacking a slightly older version of the zaurus: http://irongeek.com/all.php

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by void

3. Any IPK packages avaliable to download? I just got my wifi card for my Zaurus.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Legodude522

4. really good hack in my opinon i am getting one of those sharp zaurus myself soon mine is going to be the 3200 question which linux distro do you use on your second computer i have tried to use ubuntu but i cannot get kismet to install your help would be great

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by larry

5. The C3XXX Zaurus models also run OpenBSD and are fully self-hosting, i.e. you can rebuild the entire OS on the Zaurus. See http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by DAMIEN

6. Kudos to him for getting his Z running nicely but with at least three Linux-based distros and OpenBSD ported to his machine I would hope his Z would have that level of functionality. Go to the forums mentioned above, this is pretty commonplace stuff. I have been running aircrack (available from a feed no need to compile), have a transparent terminal on the root window, VNC into a Performa running 8.6, stream tunes from a home server while surfing hackaday at the local free hotspot, etc. for a year and a half and all the credit would have to go to pdaXrom and the good people at OESF. Sorry about the long post but seriously, this is not a hack, it's not even really news...and that's one crappy camera.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by NXK

7. i have no idea what is going on in that vid. get a better camera.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by john

8. we have afourm for anyone who has or is intrested in any of the sharp line of PDAs as well as any other linux PDA http://www.oesf.org/forums/ i have the c3000 and would not give it up for any pda on the market

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Da_Blitz

9. I assume anyone capable of this is going to know this, but don't do it unless you have $3000 for the FCC.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Ben

10. OpenZaurus is btw not the one and only distro for the zaurus. pdaxrom (http://www.pdaxrom.org) is a very powerful alternative. AFAIK they were the first who had a full-blown X11 running on the z.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by zarquon

11. It always amuses me that all these people hate on someone project, but (and maybe I missed it) I can't seem to find any hacks done by these people. When you can create a hack by yourself (and I don't mean following someone elses directions) then you can come on here and hate

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by tgm4883

12. great hack!! and to all others that don�t like this or that hack please, keep in mind that the people work hard for these hacks!! You don�t need to start a flame every time you don�t like something!! just say not my thing but stop insulting other people and their work!! Like in every community every opinion is welcome but obey the rules!! no insulting!! be fair so other can be fair to you!!

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by mentor

13. Oho ! Judging to on a picture there is the real hacker computer :) I do not know regarding technical descriptions... but a design impresses in any event.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Michael

14. but! Sharp has introduced a new model in its Zaurus line of Linux PDAs. The SL-C1000 is similar to the SL-C3000, but without an internal harddrive. As with previous Japan-only Zaurus models, the SL-C1000 will be available with internationalization features from a number of global resellers.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Destroy

15. oh man what I would do to get that on my th55 :-]... I would sell my soul if someone made a howto to get linux on it, then makes the drivers to get the internal wifi/bluetooth working, and then ports over airodump, void11, aireplay, aircrack and some bluetooth fun... sell my friggin soul

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by ...

16. I just watched that video. Kinda funny. I got a bunch of Zaurus videos on Google Videos. See them all here- http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=zaurus

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Legodude522

17. I got my Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 for $330 total. It is an awesome device. They go for around $350. Even new ones.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Legodude522

18. All you people complaining about LEDs should go start ledhackaday.com and stop whining over here. Eliot should go 'pretty please?' to Engadget and ask to borrow their comment system code. ;)

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by AndrewNeo

19. NO LED'S???!? LAME. No, but seriously, that's pretty cool. Especially since it's small enough to pocket.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by tahm

20. The Nokia 770 (http://maemo.org) has had this for ages.

Posted at 3:07PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Aleksandyr

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