This problem seems to have fixed it. It appears that there were several versions of the aironet drivers installed and after removing one set of them and running depmod -a , I reinserted the card and kismet worked and iwconfig no longer gives the error, tonight i'll try to set my hardware address and see if it works. I'll get back to you to see if the MAC address change works.
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Cooker] Kernel Aironet Drivers problem Date: 09 Jan 2003 18:06:39 -0500 From: Dan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This sounds very similar to the Red Hat bug 65264 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65264): >------- Additional Comment #5 From Arjan van de Ven on 2002-05-28 07:36 > > One of the things to try would be to move away one of the 2 (!!) > airo.o/airo_cs.o module pairs that got included accidentally. One of > them is old and should be removed; but was shipped by accident. > >------- Additional Comment #6 From Dax Kelson on 2002-05-28 15:03 > >Now WEP and everything works after doing: > ># cd /lib/modules/VER/ ># rm ./kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/airo* ./pcmcia/airo* (I would suggest moving the files into a temporary directory somewhere outside of /lib/modules, but to each their own) ># depmod -a > >That leaves only the correct drivers in the directory: > >./kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ > >Now everything is working normally again. I ran into a similar problem on my laptop with a Cisco 350 card, but I went and upgraded the firmware and now it sits and complains about being unable to set the MAC :( Still, this fix might help you out. Dan On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:27, Jeremy wrote: > 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 ? -------------------------------------------------------
