Im trying to get the latest stable version of Kismet working on my Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Its currently running Slackware 10 with a custom 2.6.7 kernel. For my wireless card, I have a DWL-122 with the latest linux-wlan-ng driver. The card seems to be working fine, I can connect to my wireless network and all, but kismet seems to be causing me problems. I installed and configured it according to the readme, which went fine, but now when I try to start kismet, I get the following error messages:
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root@slackbox:~# kismet
Server options: none
Client options: none
Starting server...
Will drop privs to eklipz (1000) gid 100
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
Source 0 (prism2source): Enabling monitor mode for wlanng_avs source interface wlan0 channel 6...
Waiting for server to start before startuing UI...
Source 0 (prism2source): Opening wlanng_avs source interface wlan0...
Spawned channelc control process 1884
Dropped privs to eklipz (1000) gid 100
Allowing clients to fetch WEP keys.
WARNING: Disabling GPS logging.
Logging networks to Kismet-Sep-11-2004-1.network
Logging networks in CSV format to Kismet-Sep-11-2004-1.csv
Logging networks in XML format to Kismet-Sep-11-2004-1.xml
Logging cryptographically weak packets to Kismet-Sep-11-2004-1.weak
Logging cisco product information to Kismet-Sep-11-2004-1.cisco
Logging data to Kismet-Sep-11-2004-1.dump
Writing data files to disk every 300 seconds.
Mangling encrypted and fuzzy data packets.
Tracking probe responses and associating probe networks.
Reading AP manufacturer data and defaults from /usr/local/etc/ap_manuf
Reading client manufacturer data and defaults from /usr/local/etc/client_manuf
FATAL: Dump file error: Unable to open dump file Kismet-Sep-11-2004-1.dump (Permission denied)
Sending termination request to channel control child 1884...
WARNING: prism2source (wlan0) unable to exit monitor mode automatically. You may
need to manually restart the device and reconfigure it for normal
operation.Waiting for channel control child 1884 to exit...
Kismet exiting.
root@slackbox:~#
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The FATAL error appears to be what is shutting down kismet, but the WARNING appears to be disabling my wireless card from being used normally after attempting to run kismet. After this happens, I need to reboot my laptop in order to get my card working again. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this?
