From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 00:53:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EA716A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:53:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danolson@visi.com) Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B99143D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:53:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danolson@visi.com) Received: from [192.168.240.220] (danolson.dsl.visi.com [209.98.225.50]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F4193811C; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:53:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <430E6803.1090109@visi.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:53:23 -0500 From: Dan Olson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050721) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Mertl References: <56287.168.100.249.178.1124853510.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> <1124915713.798.4.camel@genius1.i.cz> <1124961221.852.9.camel@genius1.i.cz> In-Reply-To: <1124961221.852.9.camel@genius1.i.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brad Schonhorst , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kismet and atheros X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:53:25 -0000 Michal Mertl wrote: > Michal Mertl wrote: > >>Brad Schonhorst wrote: >> >>>I have been using an iBook since OS X came about but recently decided it >>>was time to give BSD a try. I picked up a new TINY Fujitsu P7010 and now >>>have it running FreeBSD 6 - current circa July >>> >>>Wireless support was obviously a must for the laptop ( hence running >>>CURRENT to get support for my Atheros card. ) As someone new to BSD >>>wireless I was wondering if you guys could share with me some of your >>>favorite tools for wireless use. I have been somewhat frustrated with the >>>steps I currently take to discover new wireless access points. >>> >>>To get wireless access: >>> >>>1) Run Kismet, find some SSIDs that are open >>>2) Reboot! I can't seem to get my card out of Promisc mode otherwise >> >>You can control promiscuous mode of a running card with ifconfig ath0 >>[-]promisc. The card may end up also in monitor mode. You can disable >>monitor mode with ifconfig ath0 mediaopt -monitor. > > > I've just noticed I wrote the second command wrongly - it's 'ifconfig > ath0 -mediaopt monitor'. > > Michal > On my system after I run kismet and exit, a stray kismet_server is left running sometimes. I have to kill -9 its pid. I then do the command: ifconfig ath0 -promisc -mediaopt monitor This returns ath0 to normal and I can use wireless again. This may help you, Brad. Thanks Michal with for ifconfig command help. Dan