Package: kismet Version: 2008-05-R1-4.1+b1 Severity: normal
Kismet won't start: Launching kismet_server: //usr/bin/kismet_server 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. NOTICE: Disabling channel hopping, no enabled sources are able to change channel. Source 0 (me): Enabling monitor mode for iwl4965 source interface wlan0 channel 6... FATAL: channel get ioctl failed 22:Invalid argument Done. The problem seems to be that kismet is trying to read the current channel and failing, since the card has not yet been set to any channel. Issuing something like iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 before invoking kismet allows kismet to start. Similarly, if the card has previously been associated with an AP in managed mode, even if it's been taken down before starting kismet, there's no problem, apparently because the channel remains set. It shouldn't be too difficult to get kismet to ignore a failure to read the current channel. At the very least, a note in the documentation should warn the user about the possible need to first set the channel. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kismet depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libgmp3c2 2:4.3.2+dfsg-1 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libgomp1 4.4.5-8 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libmagickcore3 8:6.6.0.4-3 low-level image manipulation libra ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpcap0.8 1.1.1-2+squeeze1 system interface for user-level pa ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-5 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel ii wireshark-common 1.2.11-6+squeeze5 network traffic analyzer - common ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime kismet recommends no packages. Versions of packages kismet suggests: pn festival <none> (no description available) pn gpsd <none> (no description available) ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre ii libwww-perl 5.836-1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar pn sox <none> (no description available) ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web -- Configuration Files: /etc/kismet/kismet.conf changed: version=2007.09.R1 servername=Kismet suiduser=yitzhak source=iwl4965,wlan0,me channelhop=true channelvelocity=5 channelsplit=true defaultchannels=IEEE80211b:1,6,11,2,7,3,8,4,9,5,10 defaultchannels=IEEE80211g:1,6,11,2,7,3,8,4,9,5,10 defaultchannels=IEEE80211a:36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64 defaultchannels=IEEE80211ab:1,6,11,2,7,3,8,4,9,5,10,36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64 tcpport=2501 allowedhosts=127.0.0.1 bindaddress=127.0.0.1 maxclients=5 gps=false gpshost=localhost:2947 gpsmodelock=false alert=NETSTUMBLER,10/min,1/sec alert=WELLENREITER,10/min,1/sec alert=LUCENTTEST,10/min,1/sec alert=DEAUTHFLOOD,10/min,2/sec alert=BCASTDISCON,10/min,2/sec alert=CHANCHANGE,5/min,1/sec alert=AIRJACKSSID,5/min,1/sec alert=PROBENOJOIN,10/min,1/sec alert=DISASSOCTRAFFIC,10/min,1/sec alert=NULLPROBERESP,10/min,1/sec alert=BSSTIMESTAMP,10/min,1/sec alert=MSFBCOMSSID,10/min,1/sec alert=LONGSSID,10/min,1/sec alert=MSFDLINKRATE,10/min,1/sec alert=MSFNETGEARBEACON,10/min,1/sec alert=DISCONCODEINVALID,10/min,1/sec alert=DEAUTHCODEINVALID,10/min,1/sec allowkeytransmit=true writeinterval=300 trackivs=false sound=false soundplay=/usr/bin/play sound_new=//usr/share/kismet/wav/new_network.wav sound_traffic=//usr/share/kismet/wav/traffic.wav sound_junktraffic=//usr/share/kismet/wav/junk_traffic.wav sound_alert=//usr/share/kismet/wav/alert.wav speech=false festival=/usr/bin/festival flite=false darwinsay=false speech_voice=default speech_type=nato speech_encrypted=New network detected, s.s.i.d. %s, channel %c, network encrypted. speech_unencrypted=New network detected, s.s.i.d. %s, channel %c, network open. ap_manuf=ap_manuf client_manuf=client_manuf metric=false waypoints=false waypointdata=%h/.gpsdrive/way_kismet.txt waypoint_essid=false alertbacklog=50 logtypes=dump,network,csv,xml,weak,cisco,gps trackprobenets=true noiselog=false corruptlog=true beaconlog=true phylog=true mangledatalog=true fuzzycrypt=wtapfile,wlanng,wlanng_legacy,wlanng_avs,hostap,wlanng_wext,ipw2200,ipw2915 fuzzydecode=wtapfile,radiotap_bsd_a,radiotap_bsd_g,radiotap_bsd_bg,radiotap_bsd_b,pcapfile netfuzzycrypt=true dumptype=wiretap dumplimit=0 logdefault=Kismet logtemplate=/var/log/kismet/%n-%d-%i.%l piddir=/var/run/ configdir=/var/lib/kismet/ ssidmap=ssid_map groupmap=group_map ipmap=ip_map -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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