From: "Praedor Atrebates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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? >
for MDK 9.1 the update kernel is 2.4.21-0.25mdk wich carries orinoco 0.13c for MDK 9.2 we hav the latest orinoco, and that sniffer patch will be in my next kernel-tmb in contribs... Regards Thomas
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