Project: Airport Extreme with rfmon

PeterNSteinmetz · 04-28-2005

I became interested in trying to figure out a driver for the Airport Extreme card that would work with kismet for monitoring.

Began looking around on my system and am hoping to start a discussion of how to figure out an do this.

It looks like the AppleAirPort2.kext is the apple driver for this card. Inside this package is the driver library itself, in Contents/MacOS/AppleAirport2.

Running nm on this file is interesting. A whole bunch of names like '_wlc_recalc_11b_txpower'. These seem to correspond to a standard library.

There is a sourceforge project to develop an open source linux wrapper for the linux kernel for this library.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/

which has just released version 1.1.

I am wondering if some of the other members or developers of other drivers for the mac could use this to make a quick mod or wrapper that would allow monitoring?

Peter

PeterNSteinmetz · 04-28-2005

It looks like there is even a call with a name containing 'setPromiscuousMode'

Would calling that do the trick?

Peter

brunodc · 08-02-2005

Hi.
I need to use kismac with airport extreme in no limited mode.
I'm running Mac OS X v10.4.2 on a Powerbook 1.5 Ghz Aluminum G4 (which has an Airport Extreme card built-in).
I've read your post and I'm interested to.
Have you try anything with ndiswrapper?
I'm an IT engineer, I'd like to contribute.

hard-mac · 09-11-2005

KisMac adds Airport Extreme Passive Mode support as of r75

KisMac mailing list post:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/ki.../msg00034.html

Download KisMAc r75:
http://binaervarianz.de/downloads.ph...ttp&file_id=36

cheers,
Thomas
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/hardapple/

PeterNSteinmetz · 09-12-2005

Thanks for the note. Just tested this in the latest KisMac and indeed it is working after install and a reboot. Very cool!

04-28-2005	#1 (permalink)
PeterNSteinmetz Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3	Project: Airport Extreme with rfmon I became interested in trying to figure out a driver for the Airport Extreme card that would work with kismet for monitoring. Began looking around on my system and am hoping to start a discussion of how to figure out an do this. It looks like the AppleAirPort2.kext is the apple driver for this card. Inside this package is the driver library itself, in Contents/MacOS/AppleAirport2. Running nm on this file is interesting. A whole bunch of names like '_wlc_recalc_11b_txpower'. These seem to correspond to a standard library. There is a sourceforge project to develop an open source linux wrapper for the linux kernel for this library. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ which has just released version 1.1. I am wondering if some of the other members or developers of other drivers for the mac could use this to make a quick mod or wrapper that would allow monitoring? Peter

04-28-2005	#2 (permalink)
PeterNSteinmetz Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3	promiscuous mode? It looks like there is even a call with a name containing 'setPromiscuousMode' Would calling that do the trick? Peter

09-11-2005	#4 (permalink)
hard-mac Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: ether.monkey.land Posts: 4	KisMac adds Airport Extreme Passive Mode Support KisMac adds Airport Extreme Passive Mode support as of r75 KisMac mailing list post: http://www.freelists.org/archives/ki.../msg00034.html Download KisMAc r75: http://binaervarianz.de/downloads.ph...ttp&file_id=36 cheers, Thomas ---------- http://members.lycos.co.uk/hardapple/ Last edited by hard-mac : 09-11-2005 at 02:14 PM.

09-12-2005	#5 (permalink)
PeterNSteinmetz Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3	KisMac passive working Thanks for the note. Just tested this in the latest KisMac and indeed it is working after install and a reboot. Very cool!

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08-02-2005	#3 (permalink)
brunodc Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1	Hi. I need to use kismac with airport extreme in no limited mode. I'm running Mac OS X v10.4.2 on a Powerbook 1.5 Ghz Aluminum G4 (which has an Airport Extreme card built-in). I've read your post and I'm interested to. Have you try anything with ndiswrapper? I'm an IT engineer, I'd like to contribute.