Hello hacklings and hacketts,
I have been working on this for a few months and felt like it is time to turn it to beta and share it.
PieWeb Beta for a Raspberry Pi
Please note this is a beta so code will be changing
Main Box
A Raspberry Pi. ( It will work on other debian devices if you feel like messing with it. )
This is using the hard floating point build of debian wheezy to extract the most computing power possible out of the raspberry pi
Wifi Access
You will need a TL-721N or a TL-722N usb wifi card for the access point (TL-821N and TL-822N are untested but should work). This is for running the karma hotspot.
I Guess any atheros chipset that supports AP mode and uses the atk9 driver will be ok.
Optional but useful for deauths and the likes.
You will need a second usb wifi card, I recommend using the same one again (Yes your alfa will also work great)
I am still having issues with Rpi and USB.
An SD card -- 8GB or larger
This is how you will resize the image to fit your sdcard
USB Hub
The Pi only has 2 usb ports and they are current limited to something like 140ma which will not run an atheros wifi card
I am currently using a Belkin 4 port deal (add link) that has a 5v 2.5mah power supply which is enough to run the Pi, Sprint/ting 3g stick, and wifi cards
Also recommended - advanced messing with items
going to do alt power stuff once i get a second pi just in case I mess this one up
Anyway when everything is collected you will have something like
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So everything is collected
Install Software - From a Linux Machine
wget https://github.com/downloads/leapole/pieweb/pieweb-0.8.zip;
unzip pieweb-0.8.zip;
dd bs=1m if=pieweb.zip of=/dev/$YOURDSCARD;
Then switch the sd card into the raspberry pi and boot it.
Operate the Device
Well works done, play time! ssh root@$RpiAddress password should be toor. http://$RpiAddress:4567 for the web interface.
Open Source Code
All the source code is up at github for your enjoyment and tips
Quick shoutouts
Thank you to hak5darren for the Idea and So much general info -- your right its hard to find usb wifis that go to ap mode, Irongeek and davygravy for their work on the pogoplug
Comments, questions, and general bs will happen in post below
Thank You,
leapole
Edited - 6-18-2012 - switch the computer from pogoplug to a raspberry pi
Edited - 2-20-2012 - added code box so this looks better - going to edit this a little more to explain more here later