From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subject: Kismet/Orinoco Gold (PC24E) startup problems Reply-To: Organization: Ashworth & Associates, St Pete FL USA
G'day folks. I'm a touch east -- actually, I'm in "the other Bay Area" -- but y'all seem to have your crap together; some suggestions or pointers would be appreciated... I've finally acquired a wireless card I'm (at least partially) happy with, an old Orinoco Gold card, and grabbed the 0.13e drivers from the Airsnort site -- all thanks to David, who pointed out that that first column in the table is "Unpatched drivers", and that I needed the patch *too* (it's slightly less than obvious) -- built Kismet, patched, built, and installed the drivers: orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) orinoco_cs.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0006 eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.06 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:0F:50:5F eth0: Station name "HERMES I" eth0: ready eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 9, io 0x0140-0x017f eth0: New link status: Connected (0001) eth0: New link status: Disconnected (0002) eth0: New link status: Connected (0001) eth0: New link status: AP Out of Range (0004) eth0: New link status: AP In Range (0005) and the card works as a card, like a heart attack. (You're soaking in it.) So, I try to run Kismet, and, after getting all the rough edges I can find knocked off of that, it still doesn't want to start. It scrolls server start messages all the way up to "Gathering packets"... and right past it as it shuts down again... then the client finishes it's delay (or wait)... and can't find the server and it dies too: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kismet]# kismet Server options: none Client options: none Starting server... Waiting for server to finish starting before startuing UI... Will drop privs to jra (500) No enable sources specified, all sources will be enabled. Source 0 (orinocosource): Using pcap to capture packets from eth0 Source 0 (orinocosource): Attempting to enter monitor mode. Enabling monitor mode for an orinoco card on eth0 channel 6 Source orinocosource: Created child capture process 14415 Dropped privs to jra (500) Enabling channel hopping. Disabling channel splitting. Allowing clients to fetch WEP keys. WARNING: Disabling GPS logging. Logging networks to Kismet-Aug-22-2003-1.network Logging networks in CSV format to Kismet-Aug-22-2003-1.csv Logging networks in XML format to Kismet-Aug-22-2003-1.xml Logging cryptographically weak packets to Kismet-Aug-22-2003-1.weak Logging cisco product information to Kismet-Aug-22-2003-1.cisco Logging data to Kismet-Aug-22-2003-1.dump Writing data files to disk every 300 seconds. Mangling encrypted and fuzzy data packets. Reading AP manufacturer data and defaults from /usr/local/etc/ap_manuf Reading client manufacturer data and defaults from /usr/local/etc/client_manuf Dump file format: wiretap (local code) dump Crypt file format: airsnort (weak packet) dump Kismet 3.0.1 (Kismet) Logging data networks CSV XML weak cisco Listening on port 2501. Allowing connections from 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 Registering builtin client/server protocols... Registering requested alerts... Registering builtin timer events... Enabling packet source 0 (orinocosource)... Gathering packets... [ these too lines are new today; they didn't show up last night ] Capture child 14415 (orinocosource): Capturing packets from libpcap device eth0 FATAL: capture child 14415 packet buffer empty and flagged as diseased, exiting [ ... it just went on to this next line with no delay. ] Shutting down source 0 (orinocosource)... Didn't detect any Cisco Discovery Packets, unlinking cisco dump Didn't see any weak encryption packets, unlinking weak file Waiting for capture child 14415 to terminate... Kismet exiting. Starting UI... FATAL: Could not connect to localhost:2501. Client exited, terminating... Done. Run kismet_unmonitor or eject and re-insert your card (or restart your pcmcia services) to return your card to normal operation. Anyone out there spent any appreciable time with Kismet, especially on an Orinoco? My frustration tolerance is pretty low this week, and for a 3.0 release, Kismet is a bit thin on 'real' doco. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
