Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:53:23 -0500 From: Dan Olson <danolson@visi.com> To: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> Cc: Brad Schonhorst <bschonhorst@vcsnyc.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kismet and atheros Message-ID: <430E6803.1090109@visi.com> In-Reply-To: <1124961221.852.9.camel@genius1.i.cz> 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>
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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
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