sl-6000 wireless

[skoorb]

anyone managed to get the built in wireless in monitor mode for kismet or wellenreiter.    It is driving me crazy

[skoorb]

anyone ??

[thomasbernie]

I\'ve spent hours trying to get Kismet 2.8.1 running.  It\'s installed, server runs -- seems like it just doesn\'t see the card.  No luck with Discoverer and Wellenreiter either.  Wavelanmon partially works.  It displays MAC, signal info, but no SSID (on associated APs).  There has got to be a common configuration problem.  Where are the smart Linux guys?

[Mickeyl]

Which driver are you using? (see dmesg)
Probably Sharp still using wlan-ng without wireless extensions on the 6000. No luck then with anything requiring the linux standard API for wireless lan to be present.

[thomasbernie]

Which driver are you using? (see dmesg)
Probably Sharp still using wlan-ng without wireless extensions on the 6000. No luck then with anything requiring the linux standard API for wireless lan to be present.

Mickey,
iwconfig says \"no wireless extensions.\"
I\'m trying to figure how to send you the dmesg output.

Thanks,
Tom

[skoorb]

iwconfig  says

lo        no wireless extensions.
 
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 12
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 13.
Some things may be broken...
 
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 13 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 12, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
 
wlan0     IEEE 802.11-b  ESSID:\"tub\"  Nickname:\"tub\"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:09:5B:72:90:AA
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:2346 dBm
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality:62/92  Signal level:-47 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0    



lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
prism2_usb             68032   1
p80211                 18880   1 [prism2_usb]
pxa_bi                 21728   0 (unused)
net_fd                 25024   0 (unused)
usbdcore               34544   0 [pxa_bi net_fd]
usbdmonitor             5248   0
sharp_mmcsd_m          31520   2
vtty                    7920   0 (unused)
usb_ohci_tc6393        24544   0
usbcore                52048   1 [prism2_usb usb_ohci_tc6393]

[thomasbernie]

Guys,

I get the same results as Skoorb when the SL-6000 is associated.  Kismet_monitor seems to turn on the radio, kismet_hopper seems to scan, but kismet will not start with monitor or hopper running.  With the SL-6000 associated with my AP, kismet will start, but show nothing.  I haven\'t found a single wireless app that will work on the 6000.

Tom

[Mickeyl]

ugh... prism_usb  nasty. your only chance seems to be orinoco-0.14 then.

[thomasbernie]

ugh... prism_usb  nasty. your only chance seems to be orinoco-0.14 then.

Thanks Mickeyl,

I have orinoco_cs.c 0.12         I downloaded orinoco_cs.c 0.14Alpha     Is it possible to update this?  (I obviously know very little about Linux)

Tom

[Mickeyl]

0.14alpha is too old. you need to build it from CVS HEAD, because orinoco only recently implemented support for usb chips.