[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got a PCMCIA wifi card from the fellow who did one of the > presentations at the BAWUG meeting about 8 months ago at SFState. (He > was selling a bunch that had been used in testing for their product.) (I > don't have his name here, or I'd email him this question directly.)
First, you should be able to find links to all the drivers at hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11b.html > I ran kismet, just to see what would happen. I guess I need to read the > docs & set up some config values. > > Among other things it mentions that the card must be put in rfmon mode. > Do the Orinoco/hermes drivers allow that ability? Yes, but the drivers need to be patched to allow monitor mode and you need to edit kismet.conf. Let me know if you have trouble finding the patch, I can post a copy for you. > The kismet man mentions the Prism/2 chipset with the wlan-ng driver, and > the lucent chipset with the patched orinoco driver. What driver will I > need (or should work best) with this card for kismet to work properly? > > Will Kismet work with this Prism 1 card? I've only ever seen references to prismII in the kismet docs. Try the kismet website. http://www.kismetwireless.net/ > HostAP > > I recall someone saying that perhaps "hostap" is a tool I should use. > Or, perhaps it was that the reason to install the hostap package is not > for the hostap functionality itself, but because the package comes with > a driver that is better than the drivers that come standard with the > linux kernel. Err, maybe hostap was suggested to me because it is > _necessary_ to have that driver for using the card as a host (ie, the > drivers with the kernel are insufficient for letting the card act as a > host-AP.) The only hostap driver for prism I know of is at http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/ and it's for the prism2. AFAIK it puts your card in master mode so is only good for setting up an access point. I also noticed that iwconfig shows the rate at 2Mbps not 10 like the managed mode drivers. >From experience I found it's often necessary to get the latest card services from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs before you install or patch any wireless drivers, other wise "make" may fail. Hope that helps _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
