Zaurus Kismet Woes

[agoodm]

Hiya all.

I got my Zaurus today complete with Planex GW-CF11X wireless card.  Set this up first time and got connection to my wireless network.  All working OK.

Im running a normal sharp rom in english.

Next I want kismet and this is where everything goes tits up...

Ive installed kismet and kismet-qt

Ive edited /opt/QtPalmtop/etc/Kismet/kismet.conf changing the source between various things to try and make it work, including hostap and prysm2 as reccomended here. (doesnt work tho...)

The source line looks like:
source=hostap,wlan0,wireless

Ive also edited all the /etc/kismet_qt/scheme files and changed all the eth0's to wlan0 - my wireless lan card

when i try to run kismet at root console i get:


The process I have read here suggests I should then run:
cardctl scheme qpewlan0

this returns:
checking wlan0 hda
message=lnxreq_ifstate
ifstate=disable
resultcode=success
changing scheme from qpewlan3 to qpewlan0
ioctl(): device or resource busy

Then its suggested i run

cardctl reset

Which just runs with no output.
Next I understand I should run 'kismet' which brings back this:

Server options:  none
Client options:  none
starting server...
waiting for server to start before starting ui...
Will drop privs to zaurus (500) gid 500
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled
Enabling channel hopping
Enabling channel splitting
Source 0 (wireless): enabling monitor mode for hostap source interface wlan0 channel 6
FATAL: Failed to recieve list of private ioctls 95: Operation not permitted.

Im then dumped out to a prompt.  Ive been trying to get this to work for over 4 hours and it just wont go, can someone enlighten me on what im doing wrong?  And try to help me get this working in simple easy to follow steps?

Thanks, Alan

[agoodm]

OK, ive found the correct source line for my kismet:

source=wlanng,wlan0,wireless

My problem is now that I dont know how to bring up my wlan0 connection so kismet can find it.  Could someone tell me how to do this?

I tried simply connecting to my wireless here at home and then starting kismet, it all looked good and it got down to gathering packets... then the following error occured:

/opt/qtpalmtop/bin/kismet_server: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/qtpalmtop/bin/kismet_server: undefined symbol: pcap_get_selective_fd

Unfortunately I dont know what that means or how to resolve it?

[tombraider]

You have to create a specific network connection for Kismet.  Just go the the network utility in settings and follow Cresho's directions at my web site (in my signature below).
HTH
 

OK, ive found the correct source line for my kismet:

source=wlanng,wlan0,wireless

My problem is now that I dont know how to bring up my wlan0 connection so kismet can find it.  Could someone tell me how to do this?

I tried simply connecting to my wireless here at home and then starting kismet, it all looked good and it got down to gathering packets... then the following error occured:

/opt/qtpalmtop/bin/kismet_server: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/qtpalmtop/bin/kismet_server: undefined symbol: pcap_get_selective_fd

Unfortunately I dont know what that means or how to resolve it?
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[speculatrix]

/opt/qtpalmtop/bin/kismet_server: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/qtpalmtop/bin/kismet_server: undefined symbol: pcap_get_selective_fd
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what does

ls -la /lib/*pcap*

and

ls -la /lib/*pcap*

say?

I suspect you've got an old libpcap installed, make sure it's 0.8.something?

[agoodm]

OK ive reinstalled a different rom since I was last trying. (now using latest cacko as opposed to weird figlabs rom)

I think im really close to having this working now...

Except...

When I run kismet from root console with my card started with the config from a previous post I get the following errors:

Source 0 (wireless) Enabling monitor more for wlanng source interface
wlan0 channel 6

wlanctl-ng: not found
wlanctl-ng: not found
wlanctl-ng: not found
wlanctl-ng: not found

Source 0 (wireless): opening wlang source interface wlan0
FATAL: PCAP reported netlink type 1 (EN10MB) for wlan0.  This probably means your not in RFMON mode or your drivers are reporting a bad value.  Make sure you have the correct drivers and that entering monitor mode succeded.

Ive read other posts about people with this card making it work - Thats how I found out the source should be wlanng.  Any clues or pointers?  perhaps I need to upgrade some package or?

Alan

[speculatrix]

kismet should work out of the box with cacko 1.23 - or at least it did with me and my 860.

did you install kismet from the cacko feed?