How to run Kismet on the SL-6000L

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Preparation and Installation

1) Obtain kismet, kismet-qt, libpcap, libstdc++, and uclx from:

• kismet binary: kismet_3.0.1c-20031228 or the latest arm binaries from the kismet website. The latest kismet release version for download is kismet-2006-04-R1. The last tested working release version for download is kismet-2005_08-R1.
• new versions of Kismet (prebuilt ipks from the kismet website) are compressed binaries with a utility, ulcx. This may cause kismet to quit unexpectedly with a bus Error. Should this occur, the uclx utility can be found at uclx download site

• kismet qt GUI: kismet-qt_2.0.0 or kismet-qt_2.0.0-3 from cacko feed
• GUI lib: libpcap0_0.7.2
• libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so

You will also need the terminal program from the install cd and relative confidence with a console prompt and the vi editor.

2) In terminal: (you typically need the super user authority to do all the following)

 su
 cp Location/libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib
 cd /usr/lib
 chmod 755 libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so
 ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 

3) Install libpcap using the package manager (Add/Remove Software from the Settings menu)

4) Soft reset (may not be required)

5) [latest kismet] unzip and untar the kismet-***-arm.tar.gz file obtained from the kismet website to get kismet-***_arm.ipk

 gunzip kismet-***-arm.tar.gz
 tar xvf kismet-***-arm.tar

6) Instal Kismet and Kismet-qt using the package manager

7) [latest kismet] Uncompress the kismet binary by ulcx. Note: you may need to clean up some space in your internal flash for this deflation process.

 cd /usr/local/bin
 ln -s Location/ulcx
 ulcx -d kismet_client
 ulcx -d kismet_server 

8) Edit the kismet configure file

 vi /home/root/usr/local/etc/kismet.conf 
    suiduser=root
    source=prism2,wlan0,prism2source or [latest kismet] source=wlanng,wlan0,prism2source
    gps=false (unless you use GPS with kismet)

8) To prevent the Wireless Interface from timing out (and killing the kismet session) a Ad-Hoc Network Service is created. In the network app create a new service (I call mine “war-walk”). “any” for ssid. Ad-hoc type and then setup a bogus static IP address scheme with a class A mask. (IP – 10.1.0.2 Mask - 255.0.0.0 Gateway 10.1.0.1) DNS 10.1.0.1

8) Connect to this service.

9) Set Kismet GUI to run as root. Then run the Kismet GUI and watch the networks appear...

Run the latest Kismet in console

10) Edit kismet_ui configure file to make lines readable

vi /home/root/usr/local/etc/kismet_ui.conf 
   simpleborders=true

11) Export terminal info and run kismet...

export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo
export TERM=linux
kismet

Run the latest Kismet with sound

12) Unzip and untar the old kismet ipk to extract the playback binaries and wav files

mkdir temp
cp Location/kismet_3.0.1c-20031228_arm.ipk temp
cd temp

tar zxvf kismet_3.0.1c-20031228_arm.ipk
gunzip data.tar.gz
tar xvf data.tar

cp ./usr/local/bin/play /usr/local/bin
cp ./usr/local/bin/sox  /usr/local/bin
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/play
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/sox

prepare the directory (mkdir ***) /usr/local/share/kismet/wav
cp ./usr/local/share/kismet/wav/*.wav /usr/local/share/kismet/wav

13) Edit kismet configure files

for kismet-qt GUI (this acually enables the sound for the kismet server)

vi /home/root/usr/local/etc/kismet.conf
   sound=true

for console UI

vi /home/root/usr/local/etc/kismet_ui.conf
   sound=true

Anmol's Notes: If you install Kismet on the SD card and get an error "/usr/local/bin/<filename> or /usr/local/etc/<filename> not found", symlink the correct /bin and /etc folders on the SD card to the expected path.