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Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: hansolox1 on May 07, 2004, 08:44:53 pm

I am running the sharp rom 3.10 on an sl5500.  I installed kismet and the kismet qt gui.
Is there any additional software that I need to install in order to make kismet work?

I load kismet from a command prompt as root and I get no errors.  Then I run the kismet gui program and it loads just fine.  However, for some reason, I can\'t detect any networks.  When I load the gui, the light starts flashing on my linksys wfc11 cf card.  Any suggestions?

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: hansolox1 on May 07, 2004, 11:55:19 pm

CHA-CHING!  BADA-BING!  It works!

http://www.timekiller.org/howtos/kismet-5600.html (http://www.timekiller.org/howtos/kismet-5600.html)

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: Fast-Black on May 10, 2004, 02:02:49 am

hi, i have a sl-5600, and kismet keeps giving me a \"bus error\", i think theres a problem in my kismet.conf file. Would you mind posting or emailing copies of your kismet.conf and related files... thanks in advance,

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: cvmiller on May 10, 2004, 12:28:44 pm

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hi, i have a sl-5600, and kismet keeps giving me a \"bus error\", i think theres a problem in my kismet.conf file. Would you mind posting or emailing copies of your kismet.conf and related files... thanks in advance,

I think this depends more on the version of Kismet you are trying to run. I also had bus errors with the most recent ARM version from Kismetwireless:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-...4-R1-arm.tar.gz (http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-2004-04-R1-arm.tar.gz)

However rolling back to an earlier version (3.01 I think), it works fine. There\'s a link on the Kismet SL-6000 How to:
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...0the%20SL-6000L (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=How%20to%20run%20Kismet%20on%20the%20SL-6000L)

I hope this helps,

Craig...

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: Fast-Black on May 11, 2004, 10:04:28 am

Thnaks for the info. The Bus error is gone by going back to kismet 3.01. Still working on the config. I think i\'m very close. Finger s crossed!

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: Fast-Black on May 19, 2004, 02:13:17 am

Ok, i got it working but had to use \"source = prism2_legacy,....\" in kismet.conf;
i guess this is without pcap support.

Pcap- 0.7.2 is installed.

Also Kismet does not work on the command line, yet kismet_qt works ....Strange ...

What drivers are others using in Kismet?


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Sl-5600
tkc ROM 1.1rc1
Wireless CF Card SMC 2642W

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: Morpheus on May 20, 2004, 09:24:07 am

I have the same problem too.  Gui works, but command line doesnt.

Any one have any suggestions on how to get it to work?

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: tz on May 20, 2004, 12:18:22 pm

The default kismet script launches kismet_client too soon, i.e. before kismet_server is ready to connect.

edit the \"kismet\" shell script and add a sleep 5  (or such) between the server and client starter sections.

Title: Kismet loads but can\'t find any wifi networks.
Post by: seekyrr on August 19, 2004, 06:22:21 pm

Are you getting it to sniff in promiscuis mode?


John