I have been trying to get kismet, the wlan sniffer, to work with my orinoco gold. There are patches available for the orinoco driver that allows it to go into monitor mode. The thing is, all the sources indicate that the default driver version in the 2.4.21 kernel series was orinoco 0.13b. The patches available are for 0.13b or later. I check my mandrake 2.4.21 kernel orinoco driver and it is version 0.13a. Why is the mandrake kernel behind the curve with regards to orinoco drivers? I cannot get my kernel orinoco driver patched to permit it to go into monitor mode (I need monitor mode to try to detect a possible wireless ISP from a long distance via a parabolic antenna).
I cannot patch the 0.13a orinoco driver with ANY available orinoco patch as they are all for more up-to-date driver versions. I have tried and it totally screws up the orinoco driver. Can anyone tell me how I could go about upgrading my kernel pcmcia orinoco driver WITHOUT having to resort to pcmcia-cs and rebuilding my kernel, etc? Is there no way to upgrade the kernel's orinoco driver and then patch it? praedor -- Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical component of spiritual devotion. --Krakauer
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