Help urgently needed with WiFi

[powered_by_penguins]

I\'m having problems getting a Symbol Spectrum24 card to work on an SL5500 (Sharp ROM3.10).

I don\'t have access to a WLAN to properly test, however when I run Kismet near an area FULL of APs, the light blinks steadily, but nothing happens on Kismet or KismetQT.  When I set up a wireless connection in the network setting panel, it says that the signal is 84%, but as I said I don\'t have proper access to the network to check that it actually can connect.

Does this mean that the card is working or not, and if it working, how can I get promiscuous mode to start/work.  I want to use the WiFi card for Warwalking at the moment, so getting it to work that way is pretty important.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.

[powered_by_penguins]

Ok, I\'ve updated the ROM to OZ 3.2 and the problems still persist but I\'m starting to think that its kismet not working, because it kismetqt keeps saying it can\'t connect to the server.  
Also wellenreiter doesn\'t work.  it installs ok, all dependencies met, etc. but when i click on the icon, it just does nothing.  I\'ve tried installing it to sd, cf, ram and root!  I\'m starting to think that warwalking is gonna be out of the question with my z.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what i should do now would be greatly appreciated.  I\'m probably just being dense, or have missed something.

Many tHnaks.
Adam

[bladewheel]

Have you read:
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/zaurus/socket.html
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...lessCardSupport

[bluedevils]

when I had that problem it turned out my netgear card was slightly bent preventing it from seating properly.  There are other possible reasons, but that is from my experience.

[cascadefx]

I\'m having problems getting a Symbol Spectrum24 card to work on an SL5500 (Sharp ROM3.10).

I don\'t have access to a WLAN to properly test, however when I run Kismet near an area FULL of APs, the light blinks steadily, but nothing happens on Kismet or KismetQT.  When I set up a wireless connection in the network setting panel, it says that the signal is 84%, but as I said I don\'t have proper access to the network to check that it actually can connect.

Does this mean that the card is working or not, and if it working, how can I get promiscuous mode to start/work.  I want to use the WiFi card for Warwalking at the moment, so getting it to work that way is pretty important.
  
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.

Kismet doesn\'t work like you think it might.  At least on my system I had to do two steps.  First create a network profile (I named mine testnetwork) that is basically the defaults with no ESSID and give it a static IP address a subnet mask and a gateway (this prevents it from trying to pull stuff from APs it is near.

Now create a bash script that will set up and take down the kismet application.

Mine looks like this:

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#!/bin/sh

cardctl scheme CardResume

cardctl scheme testnetwork

/usr/bin/kismet_server

cardctl scheme default

name the file something useful, mine is kprelaunch.

Now... put your card in and don\'t try to use the network globe to connect to anything.

Open your console and switch to root (su).

execute your script (you may have to make it executable the first time, chmod u+x kprelaunch) by typing ./kprelaunch

After the card comes on and the text in console stops scrolling, use the Q button to lauch Kismet (don\'t close your console).  The kismet client should hook up with your server and be off and running.

When you are done, close Kismet and the script should handle shutting down the card.