Well, actually, I found the root to the problem. it seems that the kernel doesn't have wireless extensions. Recompiling the kernel seems to fix this. Thanx for everyone's help.
Oh, and I think that script only works properly if you are root. On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Alexander Kent Hajnal wrote: > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 02:28 am, Kev wrote: > > Hi, This might be somewhat off the topic here, but I am trying to patch my > > Orinoco drivers in Linux to work with kismet-monitor. I patched the > > snax's Orinoco driver version 0.9b update for pcmcia-cs 3.1.33 and > > recompiled pcmcia-cs but for some odd reason the make process will skip > > over the patched source files and refuse to allow me to compile a new set > > of drivers! Does anyone have experience with this? > > I got Kismet working under Linux 2.4.19 with an Orinoco Gold card using the > instructions at http://awip.truffula.net/index.php/KismetOrinoco > I skipped step 1 from the instructions (changing the card's firmware). If > found that the calling sequence for Kismet (step 7) didn't work reliably so I > also created a wrapper to run Kismet: > > #!/bin/bash > iwpriv eth1 monitor 2 6 > sleep 3 > kismet > kismet_unmonitor > sleep 3 > /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart > > (eth1 is the wireless card's interface) > > Hope this helps > > > > > Also, any reports of luck with the patched Orinoco Silver->128 Bit > > Encryption working in kismet? > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
