These are most of the packages you'll need to get a good wardriving laptop
ready for work.

This assumes that you are running Linux with X-windows, and you will need at
least Perl 5, GTK, and probably you might as well install the whole GNOME.
See http://www.gnome.org/ http://www.gtk.org/ http://www.gimp.org/

libpcap, kismet, gpsd, and kismet don't require GTK. 

You will probably spend a bit of time on your laptop running 
perl -MCPAN -e shell;
which is how you get the latest and greatest PERL modules to automagically
get downloaded and built without much intervention by the installer.

perl-5.6.1 is recommended. 

Build order:

libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
	libpcap library, `tcpdump` packet sniffer, etc. Essential

ethereal-0.9.3.tar.gz
	Excellent packet analysis tool. A must-have.

kismet-2.0.tar.gz
	Basic functionality, the raw guts, of a wardriving application.

gpsd-1.06.tar.gz
	GPS daemon and some applications, which make the GPS device and the
*NIX laptop talk to each other.

Gtk-Perl-0.7008.tar.gz
	This enables Perl to use the GTK libraries to create very nice
windows, control panels, dialog boxes, etc. Best thing since sliced bread,
etc. You will probably need to build a lot of prerequisites. Or maybe not.
If you've got a recent Slackware (7.1) or RedHat or Mandrake, you probably
won't have to build much to get this built.

gpsdrive-1.22.tar.gz
	This is a very sweet application -- but it's probably in need of a
very fast processor, 300MHz at least. 

Wellenreiter-v11.tar.gz
	Also very sweet, also wants a fast processor. 

dashpc-perl-gtk-0.1a.tar.gz
	Not essential at all -- however, you simply must see
http://www.dashpc.com