Hi,
I've never quite got kismet (ipkg from zsi) working to my satisfaction; I install the hostap-wireless-drivers ipkg which works fine, but kismet will only start successfully and start scanning networks if I go to my wireless applet and try to connect to a network.
Scanning happens fine until the wireless applet gives up and shows "Disconnected"; kismet will completely give up then - it'll look like it's still scanning but it's not (no more networks will be connected, etc). This is making my Z rather useless as a wireless scanning tool at the moment, sad to say. :-(
(I can't get kismet working properly with the stock drivers on Cacko; the only way I can do it is to use the crippled non-pcap prism config line in kismet.conf, which actually has exactly the same problem - it'll only scan while the wireless applet is looking for networks, which is maybe 30 seconds max.).
I've also noticed very, very often, my Z will fail trying to connect to WEP networks, and I need to retry several times until I actually do connect. This is both with the stock drivers in Cacko 1.21b and hostap. using iwconfig seems to be rather erratic, too; I've planned to rebuild the kernel with hostap support built in but have not had any time lately.
Any clues? Anybody else have this problem - I've had it since day one, and I can't see what I'm doing wrong.
Cheers,
R
