Kismet FATAL Error

Gerardoj · 05-10-2004, 01:43 AM

Hi, I would like some help cause Im getting this error when I run kismet as user.:

I have a LinkSys Wireless B 2.4 GHz USB 802.11 B

Server options: none
Client options: none
Starting server...
Waiting for server to start before startuing UI...
Will drop privs to username (1000) gid 100
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
NOTICE: Disabling channel hopping, no enabled sources are able to change channel.
Source 0 (ciscosource): Enabling monitor mode for cisco source interface eth0 channel 6...
FATAL: Unable to open cisco control file '/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config' 2:No such file or directory

Some suggestions?

Thanks for your help..

zaphodiv · 05-10-2004, 05:16 AM

Does it work as root?
Have you got correct settings in kismet.conf ?

level · 05-10-2004, 07:22 AM

What is the model number of your Linksys?

If it's WUSB11 it uses the Atmel driver or if it's WUSB11 ver 2.5 it uses the Linux-wlan-ng driver. It looks like you're using cisco as source which is incorrect.

Gerardoj · 05-10-2004, 11:48 AM

I tried as root and the same problem..

Yeah I was looking my conf file and I have as sorce this line:

source=cisco,eth0,ciscosource

How can I change the source for WUSB11? Do I need to download another driver?

Thanks again

fur · 05-10-2004, 01:08 PM

Did you look at the documentation on their site? If it does use Atmel it may not be supported, or you just have not configured it yet.

http://www.kismetwireless.net/documentation.shtml

Quote:

Chipsets known to NOT WORK:
Intel Centrino - Intel has recently released linux-native drivers for
Centrino, but they don't support rfmon.
Broadcom - No linux drivers, only useable with ndiswrapper or
linuxant wrappers around windows drivers.
Airport Extreme - Really a Broadcom, with no rfmon in the OSX drivers.
Atmel - The USB firmware has no rfmon feature. The pcmcia
firmware -may-, but the drivers don't support it.
Realtek - Cards seem to be primarily software-driven, no
support in the drivers.
HermesII - Proxim successor to the Orinoco/HermesI. No support

level · 05-10-2004, 01:43 PM

The command "cardctl ident " should tell you what type of card you have. Hopefully it will be the WUSB11 v2.5, in order to get kismet going.

The kismet.conf has several examples of different sources. If you can use the wlan-ng driver, you would uncomment the source=prism2 line and comment out the source=cisco line.