I'm not sure about the Aironet cards, however for the Orinoco cards you need to do some driver compiling.
Go here http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html Get the orinoco-0.13b.tar.gz package and the orinoco-0.13b-patched.diff files. Unpack the tarball into a directory, then run the patch against it. Then go into the orinoco directory and read the directions on how to compile and install. The patch doesn't change any of that. Installing it is usually as simple as copying it over the existing orinoco drivers in your kernel modules directory then rerunning depmod. Just rebooting runs depmod for you. Once that is done your orinoco card can be set to promiscuous mode. If you can't figure out how to get it into promiscuous mode get the kismet package. There are a set of scripts in there for getting the card into and out of promiscuous mode. I should add some general observations about the state or 802.11b wireless on linux. In general for normal use all cards are well supported these days. On Suse their setup is nicely integrated into Yast. I recall that for redhat all the infrastructure is there, however they haven't made their gui config tools wireless aware yet. So you will probably need to do some /etc/sysconfig hacking. However for more unusual stuff like promiscuous mode, host AP, and bridging your going to need to do alot of reading and alot of experimenting. Even then you may find that this stuff simply doesn't work for you. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: (clug-talk) (classified) Configuring Orinoco Gold/Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless cards in promiscous mode > Hi, > > I need some help in getting Wireless network cards ( Orinoco Gold & Cisco Aironet 350) to work in promiscous/monitor mode, on a RedHat Linux 7.2/7.3/8.0 system on a laptop computer. My ultimate ain is to be able to use the wireless cards with Airsnort. I have followed several articles/technotes (see below) on the web and it doesn't seem to work as they all say. I will apprecaite any help from anyone out there... > > Thanks for your help! > Ola > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~npetroni/airo.html > http://www.goonda.org/wireless/aironet/ > http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html > http://airsnort.shmoo.com/ > > >
