Re: Wireless network cards

never heard of kismet, so i don't _think_ so.

On 6/7/05, Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, JP Fielding wrote:
> 
> > i think the hermes.conf file is on the right track, i still see
> > references to it on some random forums.  you might try searching your
> > distros resources for any reference to that.
> >
> > for curiousity, which distro/version are you using?
> 
> Fedora Core 3
> 
> I am in the process of searching the web for "hermes.conf fedora orinoco"
> and I see some references to Kismet. Do I need that?
> 
> Andrei
> 
> >
> > On 6/7/05, JP Fielding <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > to be honest, it's been a long time since i had an orinocco card, but
> > > i remember that i had to do something odd and at the moment i can't
> > > remember what.  i'll look around and see if i see what i'm looking
> > > for.
> > >
> > > just for reference, i had an old linksys 802.11b pcmcia card on a dell
> > > 8200 laptop running redhat 8,9 and fedora 1,2 back when i used that
> > > card.  i was using the gui tools, but i had to create a hermes.conf or
> > > something and throw it in some wireless directory.  i'll get back to
> > > you and see if that is true/still valid/useful.
> > >
> > > On 6/7/05, Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Interestingly, when I tried the desktop tool (under Gnome):
> > > > Network Configuration -> Hardware -> Network Adapter
> > > >
> > > > I didn't see any Orinoco name present in the list of all the
> > > > adapters there. I tried some, like "PCMCIA wavelan_cs" and
> > > > "PCMCIA netwave_cs", but it did not configure anything -
> > > > and did not even show any error/warnings. It seem to finish
> > > > the configuration normally, but on subsequent restarts of the
> > > > "Network Configuration" tool it did not show any new hardware
> > > > profile added. I can't explain this behavior, and in fact I'd
> > > > prefer to have it done using command-line/shell scripts.
> > > >
> > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Andrei
> > > >
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