Re: kismet adn atheros

Brad Schonhorst <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael W. Oliver wrote:

>On 2005-08-27T21:09:28+0000, Brad Schonhorst wrote:
>  
>
>>#ps -aux | egrep kismet
>>root    663  0.0  0.2  2860  2108  p1  S     8:39PM   0:01.41 
>>/usr/local/bin/kismet_server --silent
>>
>>Kismet_server hung on for some reason, lets kill it off
>>#kill -9 663
>>    
>>
>
>Others and I have reported this too.  Annoying but I will live...
>
>  
>
>>Lets see if that did the trick
>>#ifconfig
>>ath0:flags=28943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,PPROMISC> 
>>mtu 1500
>>      inet6 fe80::211:f5ff:fe60:1764%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>>      ether 00:11:f5:60:17:64
>>      media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <monitor>
>>      status: associated
>>      ssid "" channel 11
>>      authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 52 protmode CTS bintval 100
>>
>>Not really, so lets try one of the suggested commands to pull out of 
>>promisc and monitor modes
>>#ifconfig ath0 -promisc mediaopt -monitor
>>ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
>>
>>Hmm, may not have need the mediaopt flag
>>#ifconfig ath0 -promisc -monitor
>>    
>>
>
>I think you want...
>
>ifconfig ath0 -promisc -mediaopt monitor
>
>(note that you must kill off kismet_server or the above command will
>have no effect (at least on my system)).
>  
>
That seemed to do the trick.  Thanks for the tip, still learning all 
these ifconfig commands.  I gotta say the scan option in ifconfig rocks!

>I wish someone knew why kismet won't channel hop...
>  
>

Well, kismet does channel hop for me.  Funny, if I try to use dstumbler 
it won't channel hop though.

Some entries in my kismet.conf file:
# Version of Kismet config
version=2005.06.R1

#I'm only scanning the 'b' channels although scanning all the 'a' channels
#was working fine, just took to long.  Most people in my neighborhood were
#using 802.11b
source=radiotap_bsd_b,ath0,Atheros

# Do we channelhop?
channelhop=true

# How many channels per second do we hop?  (1-10)
channelvelocity=5









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