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Brad SchonhorstAug 24, 2005 3:18 am 
Brooks DavisAug 24, 2005 4:12 am 
Dan OlsonAug 24, 2005 1:30 pm 
Michal MertlAug 24, 2005 8:35 pm 
Dan OlsonAug 24, 2005 9:26 pm 
Brad SchonhorstAug 25, 2005 1:18 am 
Michal MertlAug 25, 2005 9:13 am 
Doug BartonAug 26, 2005 12:26 am 
Dan OlsonAug 26, 2005 12:53 am 
Michael W. OliverAug 26, 2005 4:37 pm 
Subject:kismet and atheros
From:Dan Olson (dano@visi.com)
Date:Aug 26, 2005 12:53:07 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-mobile

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