On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:00:48PM -0700, Brian Barrera wrote:
> > eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.06
> 
> I'm running Kismet on a Dell with integrated Ethernet (eth0) and miniPCI
> Dell/Orinoco Gold (eth1) with firmware 8.72.
> 
> The patch was tested with firmware 7.52, you might want to update the card's
> firmware to at least 7.52.

I tried upgrading the card on my boss's windows 98 laptop, and almost
fried it: the upgrade code wouldn't work without drivers loaded, and
then after I loaded the drivers, it complained that the machine
wouldn't be able to talk to the card after the upgrade, because the
drivers were newer than 7.52.

I assumed this was the "at your own risk" David spoke of on the
airsnort site and, when the failed upgrade proved not to have smoked
the card, decided to put that off.

Anyone *recently* do an upgrade to 7.52 who can comment on how that
upgrade goes?  (Where, by recently, I mean "with a driver set *newer*
than 7.52"...)

> > Source orinocosource: Created child capture process 14415
> > [ 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
> 
> Haven't seen that, which takes me back to my firmware suggestion.

Noted.

> On my notebook I've got to shutdown network services that are bound to eth1
> (my wireless card). I've added the following to /usr/bin/kismet_monitor
> (Gentoo Linux):
> 
> echo "stopping network services"
> /etc/init.d/netmount stop
> /etc/init.d/samba stop
> /etc/init.d/sshd stop
> /etc/init.d/vron stop
> 
> Without that the first service to hit eth1 will shoot CPU utilization up to
> 100% and logs fill up with "eth1: Error -5 writing packet to BAP" messages.

I *am* getting that stuff, though it doesn't make it out of dmesg (I
think my sysklogd might be confused), but I *don't* see the usage bump.

The only think I think I'd be running, though, is named.

I'll try the upgrade again.

Cheers,
-- jra
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