Hello all...

I know that this has been asked before but I need to ask again. I have an hp laptop with a lanexpress 802.11b wireless pci card (prism 2.5 chipset) and everything works great. I just have one problem with figuring out how to get this thing to go into monitoring mode. I know that I need to patch the orinoco_pci driver somehow, but just cant seem to figure out how. I am looking for some good step by step help on how to get this done once and for all.

her is the output of lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller
00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M

and dmesg
pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - FFFC104E - FFFC0E5A
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Station identity 001f:0009:0001:0004
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.4.9
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:02:8A:92:88:B9
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0x1ebf1000, 00:0b:cd:8a:dc:8e, IRQ 10.
orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> & Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>)
Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:00:09.0, mem:0xD000A000 to 0xD000AFFF -> 0x1ebf3000, irq:10
Reset done................................................................................................ .................................................................................................... .........................................................;
Clear Reset............................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................;
pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - FFFC1AC0 - FFFC18CC
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Station identity 001f:0009:0001:0004
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.4.9
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:02:8A:92:88:B9
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready


can anyone give me a hand with this so I can use some of these nifty wifi scanners?

thanks in advance,
Jeremy