Wireless works but no monitor mode, Altheros card
 

I have a Toshiba laptop with an Altheros G card built in, I run FC5 fully updated, madwifi 0.9.1 drivers.

I got the card to work if I type all the commands in the terminal, however when I try to use NetworkManager it will not connect, I don't mind this much but a fix would be nice.

Also I cannot get my card to enter monitor mode, it works fine in Auditor Security Collection but not in FC5, I get the error:

[root@anibis ~]# iwconfig ath0 mode monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument.

I tried specifying an ESSID and still the same.

Here is what happens when I try to run airodump-ng

[root@anibis aircrack-ng]# airodump-ng --ivs -w cap1 -c 9 ath0
ioctl(SIOCSIWMODE) failed: Invalid argument
Error setting monitor mode on ath0

Also Kismet will not work, I'm sure I just have a setting wrong in the config file but I cannot figure it out, here is the error I get:

[root@anibis wifi]# kismet
Server options: none
Client options: none
Starting server...
Waiting for server to start before starting UI...
Will drop privs to anibis (500) gid 500
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
Source 0 (wifiX): Enabling monitor mode for madwifi_g source interface ath0 channel 6...
WARNING: ath0 appears to not accept the Madwifi-NG controls. Will attempt to configure it as a standard Madwifi-old interface. If you are using madwifi-ng, be sure to set the source interface to the wifiX control interface, NOT athX
FATAL: 'get_mode' does not return integer parameters.

Sorry for the multiple questions, thanks in advance.

I suspect that the MadWiFi fix (http://madwifi.org/changeset/1380) for this is not in the current MadWiFi livna package as the livna package is from January and the current MadWiFi release is from May

Are you using the linvna depot?

Phil

I found a linva bugzilla bug and it confirms that the livna MadWiFi is broken with NetworkManager.

Subcribe to this bug to find out when livna MadWiFi will work with NetworkManager.

ok thats no big deal, I just created some scripts for the wireless networks I use, now what about my wireless card not going into monitor mode?

I downloaded the files you listed in your first post, I copied them to the same dirs in the madwifi-0.9.1 dir, and recompiled. It listed the files when I ran make, and make install ran fine yet I still cannot get my card to go into monitor mode. Is there a different madwifi driver I can use?

Also I went into the patches dir and ran ./install.sh and everything ran fine.

This is what I see when I type iwconfig:

lo no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device ath0 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:A7:DB:26
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=10/94 Signal level=-85 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:4026 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

I got Kismet working, when I load Kismet it creates a wireless device called 'kis', when I run airodump-ng using that interface it works fine, I just can't use ath0.

You don't do this with atheros cards and the madwifi-ng driver. You need to create a new interface from wifi0 (probably want to call it ath1). This will be the same physical card with a different mode:

A benefit of this method is that you can use one card to do many things (i.e., access point, monitor mode, wds, all-in-one).

That did it, thanks alot.

ditto.....

i dont have the 'wlanconfig' command in slackware, and i am having the EXACT same issue.

any help?

i was able to use the card to connect successfully to my home network, but i cant get monitor mode to work to save my life. i have read posts upon posts in several forums and im starting to pull my hair.

no monitor mode, and no airodump-ng.

I don’t know the specifics of how to get it in slackware, but wlanconfig can be found in the madwifi-ng source, which you can get from svn or in tarball form.

Worked for me to
 

Thanks osor you have just saved me a hell of a lot of time.

It worked like a charm.

help me
 

hai i just download a auditor security and this is my problem i cannot run airodump its just cannot find my wifi card or my usb apdater dwa-140 so plz teach me how to settle my problem....and just a minute i just finish download my airodump 2.1 its same when mac filter <p =none> i put p and its failed to set the wireless chanel; you have to plug agains the card and restart airodump
help me
plzzz:cry: