wireless question

NeptuneCrash · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

okay this has stumped many so be forwarned, ive got a atheros wireless card built into my toshiba a75 had madwifi drivers installed. i have a orinoco gold card in my pcmcia slot that is recognized as ath1, (my atheros card is ath0) my whole goal is to get monitor mode working with my orinoco or even both, i unmerged the madwifi drivers i have orinoco drivers installed and it still shows up as ath0 and ath1 tried many things if anyone has any ideas it would be very much appreciated.

NeptuneCrash · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

okay well i found out the new orinoco cards are manufactured by atheros so that makes some sense now i just need to get it to work with airsnort and kismet in monitor mode when i iwpriv i dont see monitor mode? altho when i type "iwconfig ath1 mode monitor" i get no error? ideas?

robdd · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject:

Hi there - if you want some help you could start by helping the readers of this forum with some information about your problem. Read the forum introductory stuff about how to pick a meaningful subject header, and what info. to provide.

You could start by telling us:

- Gentoo kernel version (type 'uname -a')
- make and model of wireless cards
- are the drivers compiled in to the kernel, or compiled as modules ?
- provide dumps from lspci, lsmod, ifconfig, and iwconfig

I've got kismet working both on a D-Link using the madwifi drivers, and on a Netgear WG511 card with the Prism2 drivers, and would be glad to help.

Regards,
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Rob Diamond
Gentoo Hack, hack, hacker
Sydney, Australia

NeptuneCrash · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

okay im runnin gentoo dev sources 2.6.9r13 its a built in atheros "super G" and its a new orinoco gold a/b/g for the pcmcia they are both modules heres my mod list

robdd · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:18 am Post subject:

Hi there - been away for the weekend. I've looked at your listings, and it looks promising

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You might want to try the 2nd wireless card first - it looks like everything is pretty well ready to go. On my box here I just modprobe'd ath_pci, and then started kismet, and it all came up OK, so let's hope your laptop is just as cooperative.

First make sure you have kismet configured - you have to tell it which wireless card to use for listening. I emerged version net-wireless/kismet-2004.04.1-r1, but I think there's a later version available now. Hopefully it won't make any difference. The only bits of the standard config I changed in /etc/kismet/kismet.conf were:

...
# User to setid to (should be your normal user)
suiduser=robd

# Sources are defined as:
# source=cardtype,interface,name[,initialchannel]
# Card types and required drivers are listed in the README.
# The initial channel is optional, if hopping is not enabled it can be used
# to set the channel the interface listens on.
#source=cisco,eth0,ciscosource
source=madwifi_g,ath0,Atheros
...

You will need to set the suiduser to a valid user on your box, and in the source line use ath1 instead of ath0. Once you have the config file edited and saved, cd to a directory where your (unprivileged) suiduser has write permission - I made a kismet sub-directory under robd's home directory, and cd'd there. Kismet will write its dump files here, and the user interface part of kismet runs as the suiduser. OK - now su root, and type kismet, and if we're lucky it should just work !! If not please capture the kismet output and post that and we'll see if we can find what's wrong.

Once we get your PCMCIA card going we'll have a go at getting the built in card going - it may pick up more networks since it looks like the PCMCIA card plus Linux drivers will only support 802.11b networks.

BTW, once you get kismet running you'll be amaaaaaaaaaaaazed at how many networks are out there with no WEP encryption - there's even a lawyer's office in my building at work with a wifi network and no encryption. It's luck I'm discreet !

Good luck, and let us know how you go.

Regards,
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Rob Diamond
Gentoo Hack, hack, hacker
Sydney, Australia

NeptuneCrash · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

thank you much im flying with kismet its all working swell airsnort still dont work but i dont think its that big a deal cuz kismet does the same thing basically.

projkt4 · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 238

following the documentiation and the various threads i have been able to install my atheros pcmcia card on my gentoo 2.6.1-r7 laptop. my problem is that when i run kismet i get this error;

NeptuneCrash · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 27

you do know u have to start kismet as "root" and it passes privs to a user that in ur config right? because root shouldnt have any permissions that cant be done

projkt4 · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 238

after more digging i discovered i had to change the directory i was in to the user's home directory. now everything works fine and im ready to start driving.