macubergeek

I'm currently using this card with hostap driver on a hard drive installed copy of Auditor.

I can't seem to throw the card into monitor mode manually with iwconfig.
I'm getting "not supported" errors.
Kismet is also complaining about same thing.
Below is the supporting info for the investigation I've done.

Now the thing is, the hostap driver works fine for connecting to my cheapo linksys wap. I can connect fine.(but cannot set a WEP key, but that's a seperate issue.

The question I have is should I be using the wlan_ng driver instead of the hostap driver? Might this be a firmware issue?

I've searched these forums and haven't seen any closely related posts. I've searched the kismet docs and have my capture source set to:
source=hostap,wlan0,6

Can anyone who uses this card point me in the right direction?

---------------------------supporting info-------------------------------


Ok here's my card:
##############################################
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "INTERSIL", "HFA384x/IEEE", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
##############################################
Translation:
It's a Senao NL-2511CD plus ext2 card
##############################################Scri pt started on Sat May 13 23:30:24 2006
root@auditor:~# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:76:40:B0:54
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800

eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 44-4F-C0-00-11-95-54-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:400 (400.0 b) TX bytes:400 (400.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:35:3B:EB
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

root@auditor:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"nixyes" Nickname:"nixyes"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:68:BA:46
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:2346 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality=92/92 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level=-100 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

root@auditor:~# iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
root@auditor:~# iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor                  wlan0 mode monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
root@auditor:~# iwconfig wlano mode monitor
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlano ; No such device.
root@auditor:~# monitor  .wlan wlan0 11
message=lnxreq_wlansniff
enable=true
channel=11
prismheader=false
wlanheader=false
keepwepflags=true
stripfcs=true
packet_trunc=no_value
resultcode=success
root@auditor:~# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"nixyes" Nickname:"nixyes"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:68:BA:46
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power:2346 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-90 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

###########################################
Kismet config:
source=hostap,wlan0,6
###################
kismet error
root@auditor:~# kismet
Server options: none
Client options: none
Starting server...
Waiting for server to start before starting UI...
Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure.
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
Source 0 (6): Enabling monitor mode for hostap source interface wlan0 channel 6...
FATAL: Failed to retrieve list of private ioctls 95:Operation not supported

wrzwaldo

I have two of them that work great with hostap on slackware 10



http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_main

macubergeek

On a hunch I did the following:

switch-to-wlanng
ran cardinfo and ejected and reinserted card
state.wlan wlan0 enable;monitor.wlan wlan0 6
tail /var/log/messages
and I saw:
May 14 10:30:10 auditor kernel: linkstatus=CONNECTED
May 14 10:30:41 auditor kernel: monitor mode enabled
May 14 10:30:41 auditor kernel: device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode

light on the card is now blinking.

Am I correct here in saying that switching to the wlan_ng driver successfully threw the card in monitor mode?

The thing is when I rerun iwconfig wlan0 it still indicates the Mode as Managed.
???

wrzwaldo

When my Senao's are in monitor mode the light is on solid. I would say that your card is not in monitor mode.

macubergeek

I'm thinking I have user-error/software issue ;-)