Re: No wifi0 interface after upgrade to SLED 11.0

Thanks for the info Pavel. I appreciate it.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Pavel Roskin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 17:36 +0000, Joe wrote:
>
> > I was using kismet on my SLED 10.1 machine and it was working fine. I
> > upgraded to SLED 11.0 and now I cannot get kismet to work. Before the
> > upgrade I had a wifi0 interface to specify as a source for Kismet; now
> > I have wlan0 and wlan1, but no wifix.
>
> That's because you are using ath5k now.  Interfaces need to be specified
> differently if you are using kismet with ath5k.
>
> > I installed a snapshot (madwifi-trunk-r4128-20100325) as well as an
> > rpm for OpenSuSE (madwifi-0.9.4-1.i586.rpm).
>
> If you want to know what you are using, I suggest that you install
> either one or the other.
>
> > Harry:~/Downloads # lsmod |grep ath
> > ath_pci               222976  0
> > wlan                  217352  1 ath_pci
> > ath_hal               377856  1 ath_pci
> > ath5k                  95252  0
> > mac80211              199728  2 ath5k,b43
> > cfg80211               23380  2 ath5k,mac80211
> > led_class               3896  2 ath5k,b43
>
> If you want to keep using MadWifi, you need to blacklist ath5k by adding
> "blacklist ath5k" to any file in /etc/modprobe.d/
>
> > wmaster0  no wireless extensions.
>
> That's a clear sign that you are using a mac80211 based driver, such as
> ath5k.
>
> > Harry:~/Downloads # wlanconfig wlan1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode
> > monitor
> > wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
>
> That's because you don't have wifi0.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>

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