trying to patch ipw2200 to run aircrack
 

I'm trying to run aircrack on an inspiron 600m with ipw2200.

I've installed the injection patch for the wireless driver. After installing Aircrack, I attempted to replace ipw2200.ko, with no success. I received an error "unknown symbol in module." A quick Google search shows a lot of other people on a variety of distros receiving the same error, but I've yet to find any information on a fix for it, or even a bug report.

I successfully installed the patch to enable packet injection for the driver. I was understanding that after I installed the patch for the wifi driver, before installing aircrack, that ifconfig would reveal a new interface, rtap0. No such luck - interface doesn't exist. The firmware is copied to the appropriate hotplug directory - I don't see any problem, but I can't get the patch to work.

Problem solved. ID10T error. I was using the wrong release of the driver.

I've seen this posted on a lot of other forums, so if you get it, you might want to check that you're not using ipw2200-1.2.0 (stable release). You have to use 1.2.1 for this to work.

Jo Shmo just added some relevant information on page 14 of this aircrack-ng forum thread for 2.6.22 kernels.

I've read in a magazine that the next Intel 2200 driver which will be based on mac80211 (the stack from devicescape) will do this by default. Are you talking of this driver (which is still in git repository, not in the mainstream) or the standard ipw2200 that exist since a long time?

Anyway, good to know, thanks for the infos.

Are you saying it will inject without a patch? Is this the sourceforge driver?. I see the ipw2200-1.2.2 came out in mid July. Still going to have to alter the TX_POWER setting as this is a "MUST".

Double post, shoot me!

Done :)


What!? the tx_power can also be tweaked? I thought this was hardcoded in the blob to not be harmfull to human beings? That could be good if this is possible. Prepare some headache tablets! :D

Unfortunatly I don't have the magazine here, it's at my home in France and I'm now in Germany..
It's page 6 here:
http://www.ed-diamond.com/feuille_lmag96/index.html
If you read french, in very small letters :D

And yes it's the mag from mid July so I think we are talking of the same thing. I'm surprised it's on sourceforge as it is now based on mac80211 while the others were on ieee80211

From memory you have to pull the git of the wireless maintainer in Linux. I think this driver will be integrated in the 2.6.23, so it could be already there in the 2.6.23-rc5.
Maybe there is more information in Wireless subforum on how to get the latest development tree.

Linville is the maintainer:
http://git.kernel.org/

Usual git commands :)

Yup
I can read french. And yes, on the same page of that forum thread, Jo Shmo shows how to crank up the TX_POWER through the driver. I can crack WEP in three minutes off the street with an RXQ of 60 with the higher TX_POWER. One could always have two modules hanging around and switch them out if one is concerned about health.

Well, I will try this and control the laptop through vnc :)

Same here, three or four minutes but with another device. I really have to try with my 2200 out of curiousity.