the Aironet wireless card drivers for the 4800/340/350 2.4Ghz wireless cards
does'nt work properly in the mandrake kernel.
when I run iwconfig i get the following
Device eth1 has been compiled with version 0
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 13.
Some things may be broken...
but it appears to run and it will let me configure certain things.
Also when i do a ifup eth1 i get the following error message:
ifup eth1
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Determining IP information for eth1...
With the driver in the mandrake kernel HW address assigning doesn't appear to
work properly. I assign the address with the line
ifconfig eth1 hw ether 11:11:11:11:11 (example address)
and it says it is assigned but the card doesn't actually use that address
Lastly Kismet doesn't function with the drivers because it says they are
reporting a invalid value:
First i run kismet_monitor (which puts it into promiscuious mode) then i run
kismet and it shows the following
FATAL: pcap reported netlink type 1 (EN10MB) for eth1. This probably means
you're not in RFMON mode or your drivers are reporting a bad value. Make
sure you have run kismet_monitor.
THis makes it look like there are 3 problems:
1. THe drivers are compiled with the wrong version of the wireless extensions
2. Setting the HW address of the wireless card doesn't work
3. Putting the card into promiscuious mode doesn't work
But all of these work with the driver included in the linus kernel.
Would it be possible to switch the driver in the mandrake kernel to the one in
the linus kernel ?
