On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > Concerning kismet... I can't get it to work reliably with my prism2.5 card. > To make it work at all I have to run 'prism2_monitor <channel>' on the > channel I want to sniff on. It will then sniff on the channel I select, but > no others. If I run the script and specify a new channel, it will start > sniffing on the new channel, but stop on the first channel. Therefore, I > have to manually cycle through all the channels. Additionally, it sometimes > stops working on all channels and I have to restart card services via > '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart'. What gives? > > I am using: > kernel 2.4.7-10 > Redhat 7.2 > kismet 1.4.2 > pcmcia-cs 3.1.33 > wlan-ng 0.1.10 > Linksys WPC11 v2.5 > Dell Inspiron 3200 PII 266Mhz > > Mike > This is because Kismet doesn't do any channel hopping itself, you need to use either the included scripts (prism2_hopper, etc) or run something like prismstumbler in the background that hops channels. This is all in the documentation, kismet is a great program. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203