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Title: Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals
Post by: MightyPez on January 13, 2004, 01:49:06 am

I just grabbed a Zaurus SL-5500 and a Symbol CF wi-fi card, and so far I love them. Just one issue, however.

When I installed kismit and then the qtopia GUi for kismit, I can launch the program and activate the card, but no signal comes up. I can connect just fine to my wireless network using the network utility, but kismit refuses to find anything.

I tried installing with add/remove and using the command line, the same results each time. I briefly checked kismit.conf, but didn\'t have a really close look.

I\'m using the retail Sharp 3.10 ROM and a 64mb SD card. Each time I install kismit to the internal memory.

Title: Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals
Post by: Capt_Caveman on January 13, 2004, 08:40:57 am

Are you starting the Kismet-server app first or are you simply launching the Kismet-GUI by itself?

Title: Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals
Post by: Anonymous on January 13, 2004, 09:42:39 am

I suggest giving a closer look at the conf and making sure the kismet hopper / server is started. It may be listen on another channel then your ap. If you enable the channel hopper it should work

Title: Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals
Post by: Anonymous on January 13, 2004, 10:10:58 am

Symbol spectrum24 wont work in promiscous mode on standard rom.

Prism 2 cards work ok though with standard rom & kismet + kismet-ui.

Title: Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals
Post by: MightyPez on January 13, 2004, 03:25:41 pm

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Are you starting the Kismet-server app first or are you simply launching the Kismet-GUI by itself?

Tried that, still no dice.

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Symbol spectrum24 wont work in promiscous mode on standard rom.

Prism 2 cards work ok though with standard rom & kismet + kismet-ui.

I was afraid of that. Oh well, this gives me the chance to install OpenZaurus then.

Title: Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals
Post by: soycap on January 15, 2004, 09:19:41 am

Use Wellenreiter with OZ instead of Kismet, you will save yourself a lot of frustration getting it to work.

Title: Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals
Post by: MightyPez on January 15, 2004, 12:59:53 pm

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Use Wellenreiter with OZ instead of Kismet, you will save yourself a lot of frustration getting it to work.

I may have to. It looked like a good program.