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I am trying to install kismet with the correct drivers, and config files etc on a dell CPX I have. It has the power (piii 500 with 512 megs ram) and I am running Ultimate Edition Ubuntu LITE, which see's the card but I need to get kismet going

Which wifi card you have in it?

Have you modified the kismet.conf file? Specifically, have you modified the "sources=" line to point to the correct card? That's the basic mistake most people make.

Not yet.. I did some man paging and searching so that is on todays agenda. Its been a while since I used Kismet mainly because of the gas prices and I drive a V8

Barry I have a true Orinoco Gold card.... (I plan to be buried with it)

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Iwconfig

Will give you the source.

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Sudo lshw - C net

This will show you hardware and drivers,you'll need to look and find your card.

Then edit the config file.

/usr/local/etc/kismet.conf

If it fails to start post the reason.

Well, my googling seems to point out the new drivers (0-15rc4) does not support monitoring, and the older drivers if you can find them don't seem to work with the new 2.6.35-24 kernel I have. So... I am gonna try to dig up an older version of Ubuntu and go from there..

and as luck will have it I have older versions of it.. 9.10 Xubuntu and Ubuntu...

Starpoint wrote:Well, my googling seems to point out the new drivers (0-15rc4) does not support monitoring, and the older drivers if you can find them don't seem to work with the new 2.6.35-24 kernel I have. So... I am gonna try to dig up an older version of Ubuntu and go from there..

and as luck will have it I have older versions of it.. 9.10 Xubuntu and Ubuntu...

Yea, Orinoco support has dropped by the wayside. Atheros based usb cards are super cheap, and the raylink based cards are just as cheap. I'm using one of these. Shipping can be a bit slow, and the cd is mostly useless, but the adapter is awesome.

I have one of these and they have been proven touch lil units. Good friend of mine uses it as a network connection to his upstairs pc which has passed more packets than there are drops of water in the ocean

Starpoint wrote:I have one of these and they have been proven touch lil units. Good friend of mine uses it as a network connection to his upstairs pc which has passed more packets than there are drops of water in the ocean

That one should work.

Barry wrote:That one should work.

Got it, the source is Rt73,wlan0,RaLink and it worked like a charm
I have another usb airlink that uses the same driver but what I like about that Hawking is the RP-SMA connector.



granted its not the Gold card working in the pcmcia slot but one bridge at a time

Starpoint wrote:Got it, the source is Rt73,wlan0,RaLink and it worked like a charm
I have another usb airlink that uses the same driver but what I like about that Hawking is the RP-SMA connector.



granted its not the Gold card working in the pcmcia slot but one bridge at a time

The nice thing about the usb wifi cards is you are only limited by the available usb buss. You could throw 20 adapters on there and they'd all work with kismet. You'd be hard pressed to find a compatible usb adapter that is worse than the orinoco card.

Ok.. next up on the list is GPSD again....

I still have my Magellan Meridian GPS, and if my brain remembers correct the syntax at the CLI was:
GPSD -P /Dev/TTYS0 -S________ (where _______) is where i am lost and is there anything I need to look at to see the GPS? baud rate, Nmea on or off?

(its been a while)

Barry wrote:The nice thing about the usb wifi cards is you are only limited by the available usb buss. You could throw 20 adapters on there and they'd all work with kismet. You'd be hard pressed to find a compatible usb adapter that is worse than the orinoco card.

The Dell I am using as a 1x USB 1.1 on the back and I have a 4 port USB 2.x PCMCIA card to add more. I also have an Airlink 10/100 pcmcia and 10/100 usb net adapter so I can do some weird things.

Starpoint wrote:Ok.. next up on the list is GPSD again....

I still have my Magellan Meridian GPS, and if my brain remembers correct the syntax at the CLI was:
GPSD -P /Dev/TTYS0 -S________ (where _______) is where i am lost and is there anything I need to look at to see the GPS? baud rate, Nmea on or off?

(its been a while)

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Gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0

Works on the stumble box

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gnome-terminal -x kismet

Put it in system/preference/startup applications ( or whatever its called now)and let it start at boot.

Just be sure put GPSD first in the list.