New kernel for Orinico/Symbol/Socket users

[ZeeUser]

Well, that\'s what I\'m going to end up doing. I have been wanting to get a smaller wi-fi card, anyways. My thanks to everyone who tried to help, though.

I found some Symbol CF Wi-Fi cards on eBay for $30 w/ free shipping (an awesome deal!). There were 53 left when I wrote this.

[Anonymous]

So any help will also be highly appreciated - the first one who can help me and ZeeUser getting a \"normal\" wifi working (so it can connect to AP) and also makes it possible to use either wellenreiter or kismet. AP and sniffing of course can\'t run at at the same time  

Been playing around with this for a day!!! Eventually it seemed a simple solution! Use the hostap drivers as quoted before....then vi hostap_cs.conf and change the first entry.

change class \"Network\"   to     class \"wlan-ng\"


you will then be able to use normal wifi after.

again use
- cardctl scheme CardResume
- cardctl scheme qpewlan0
- cardctl reset

before starting wellenreiter and check to change to latest wlan in the configuration interface...

hope this helps someone avoid the setting up problems I had with prism2 buffalo.

If you find this confusing just post and I will write a detailed how to

cheers ad

[zbones]

Do you have to install a kernel with wifi extensions to get this to work with a prism2 card ( I have the buffalo ard also), or do you just need the hostap drivers?

Peter.

[Anonymous]

Yep I think so, I\'m using Javaboy\'s kernel with cacko Qt rom.

[LadyBug]

I\'m somewhat confused right now. I have tried to get Kismet/Wellenreiter working with my Symbol
CF card (bought from eBay for $30+shipping) but no go so far.

I have tried both the javab0y wireless kernel and the other wireless kernel (the \"no overclock\"
version) from ZUG downloads.

The problem is that iwconfig does not show me the monitor mode (other private stuff is shown OK),
So both wellenreiter and kismet tell me that they cannot set the eth0 to monitor mode. This lack
of monitor mode is everywhere explained as \"you\'ve got wrong or old drivers\". But I though the new
kernels in the DL area HAVE the new drivers?

And what is this hostap driver stuff discussed here? Do I need them? Where do I get them?
Or is this a configuration problem?

[Richjn]

jayaboys kernel should work fine with your symbol based card. Make sure you are connected to your AP before running iwconfig.

The hostap drivers are an alternative to the symbol drivers and work for some cards. If your symbol card is a bit of an odd one you may want to try these.

Can\'t remeber where I got them from but itry a search. Failing that PM me your email and I will send them to you.

Richard

[tamarian]

Anyone knows where\'s the new location for the hostap_cs?

This is no longer available:

http://www.cacko.biz/~sash/laze/