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regarding kismet: cisco_wifix doesn't work with renamed interfaces
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Package: kismet
Version: 2004.04.R1-5
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
After the interface name is changed with the new cisco kernel driver,
the /proc/driver/aironet/<interface_name> still is the original
interface name. This arguably is the kernel driver bug. Moreover,
there really is no way at all to tell the old name after the renaming --
unless you have just one card on the system, that is, or You resort to
some active trickery).
I suggest setting the Node Name to a random magic temporarily using
iwconfig foo nick <magic>, then look in through
/proc/driver/aironet/*/Config:NodeName; bingo, the one with the Node
Name set to this magic is the one, then reset it back. A script to
outline this idea is attached; if you like it and don't want to
incorporate it yourself, I probably will be likely to do it myself.
Cheers,
Jan.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-jan
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2 (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Versions of packages kismet depends on:
ii ethereal-common 0.10.6-1 Network traffic analyser (common f
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-1 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgmp3 4.1.4-5 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjasper-1.701-1 1.701.0-2 The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblcms1 1.13-1 Color management library
ii libmagick6 6:6.0.6.2-1.5 Image manipulation library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff4 3.6.1-4 Tag Image File Format library
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii wireless-tools 27-1 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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#!/bin/sh
#
# get_orig_airo_if_name -- print the original aironet interface name on stdout
#
# Usage: get_orig_airo_if_name <current_if_name>
#
# Note that we need the capability to set a device nickname, which typically
# requires being root, as well as read access to $PROCDIR, which may not be
# world-readable on a given system.
#
# Exit code: 0 on success, non-0 otherwise
set -e
[ "$#" -ne 1 ] && {
echo "Usage: get_orig_airo_if_name <interface>" >&2
exit 1
}
IF="$1"
# XXX Scrap this when the iwconfig invocation below is fixed
case "$IF" in --help)
{
echo "Yes, \`$IF' is a fair device name, but iwconfig would"
echo "choke on it. See Debian Bug#289657. Aborting."
} >&2
exit 1;
;;
esac
PROCDIR="/proc/driver/aironet"
# If we loop too many times, something almost certainly is wrong
TRIES=20
WE="${0##*/}"
if [ "$(ls "$PROCDIR" | wc -l)" -lt 1 ]; then
echo "$WE: Nothing in $PROCDIR, aborting." >&2
exit 1
fi
while [ "$((TRIES--))" -gt 0 ]; do
# (1) Get enough randomness, so we don't loop thru all the devices
# unnecessarily, but don't drain the entropy sources too much. This is
# kind of moot because of (3)
#
# (2) Convert the random bytes to some printable representation: md5sum
# is a part of Debian base, and is pretty light on resources.
#
# (3) The max length of a nickname is 16 bytes, AFAICT from RTFSing,
# and:
#
# # iwconfig ap0 nick `perl -e 'print "A" x 17'`
# Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
# SET failed on device ap0 ; Argument list too long.
MAGIC="`head -c 8 /dev/urandom | md5sum | head -c16`"
# XXX Should be ``iwconfig -- "$IF"'' -- see Debian Bug#289657
# Fix the above warning when this is fixed
iwconfig "$IF" nick "$MAGIC"
for a in "$PROCDIR"/*; do
# We could just ``grep "$MAGIC"'', but let's be anal
if grep "^NodeName: $MAGIC\$" "$a/Config" > /dev/null; then
echo "${a##"$PROCDIR/"}"
exit 0
fi
done
done
echo "$WE: Unable to get the original device name for \`$IF'." >&2
exit 1
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Version: 2016.07.R1-1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package kismet has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1040240
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