Rusty Carruth: > > kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2 > kernel: PCI Enabling device 0000:09:00.00 (0000 -> 0002) > kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt ...blah... > pci.agent[4578]: prism54: loaded successfully
Congratulations, you have a working wifi card.
> ifconfig eth2 up
>
> and suddenly it says 'IEEE 802.11b/g' instead of 'NOT READY!'
> Thats a BIG improvement.
>
> I then tried 'iwlist eth2 scan', and get no scan results (Oh,
> the green light is STILL off!)
The light is switched off when you are in monitor mode. Maybe you
switched to monitor before scanning?
> ! linksys A N 006 178 T4 192.168.1.102 234B
> ! HOLZ A O 006 121 0.0.0.0 70B
> ! argoweb A O 006 119 0.0.0.0 0B
> <no ssid> P N --- 5 0.0.0.0 0B
> linksys_SES_51740 A O 006 1 0.0.0.0 0B
Looks fine. I Like that 'linksys' thing. ;-)
> and then suddenly kismet died, with:
>
> /usr/bin/kismet: line 80: 4818 Segmentation fault ${BIN}/kismet_client
May be just a problem with kismet (although it never crashed for me).
> So, I tried airsnort again and:
>
> Oooh! Look! AirSnort is now seeing packets! It says:
> 00:0f:b5:EF:..... CAME... Thu, Sep 1 00:57... channel 10, 195 packets,
> 1 encrypted, 0 interesting, 1 unique
> FF:FF:FF:FF... 46 packets, 0 encrypt, 0 interesting, 0 uniq.
>
> (It is interesting to me that airsnort only sees one (or maybe that's
> two) things, but kismet saw 3 (or is that 5???))
Last time I used it, airsnort wasn't able to enable "channel hopping" on
the card- That may be the reason for the smaller number of packets.
Kismet can do this (you may have noticed how the channel displayin
kismet is permanently changing - lock it with 'L').
Anyway, airsnort is not a network detector, but a WEP key cracker.
Should you want to do this, you better collect packets with kismet and
use aircrack (only with permission of the network owner, of course).
> I don't have any permission to connect anywhere yet, so I won't
> try till I can run over to my neighbors, but I *think* we're up...
> Especially since ifconfig says that we've gotten 1.3 MiB from 13016 received
> packets (now, I wonder why I sent 5 packets? hmmm)
DHCP?
> So, apparently the Netgear 802.11g card with NO info on where it was
> made is a prism54g card and sort of works.
Good to hear.
J.
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