Firstly, on wireless Howtos, have you checked out http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ and it's links and associated pages.
Secondly, the orinoco_cs driver is only recently becoming half decent (although still not there, IMHO). The recent kernels (2.4.21 and .22-pre releases) all use the latest orinoco 0.13 driver, which is likely not available in 2.4.18-bf2.4. If you want to stay with the orinoco driver, try a more recent kernel release, or try compiling your own orinoco drivers from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html. After many hassles with the orinoco driver (it still fails under heavy load) I switched to the linux-wlan-ng drivers, which haven't failed me yet. The installation is very straightforward and simple (if you have already got kernel sources installed - for pcmcia-cs). The driver for 11Mbs cards is at: ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng Lastly, although I have never seen your airsnort error message, I have successfully used airsnort with the linux-wlan-ng drivers. Damien On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:37, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Fri 25 Jul 02003 at 10:17:17AM -0500): > > Yes, I have simple wireless networking working on several laptops. > > > > We have been tasked to analyze several expansive wireless networks for > > functional, performance and security issues. So, we are investigating > > how far we can go with debian-based laptops? > > > > Yes, I have done several apt-cache search's, and found several > > applications that may serve us well. > > > > What we have not found is any website or howto that compares/contrasts > > any of these apps, or goes into detail as to what to do and what not to > > do. > > > > What do you think? > > Here's a good example of our confusion: > > # uname -a > Linux freya 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown > > # sudo lsmod > Module Size Used by Not tainted > orinoco_cs 4680 2 > orinoco 29568 0 [orinoco_cs] > hermes 3296 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco] > ds 6624 2 [orinoco_cs] > i82365 22384 2 > pcmcia_core 41376 0 [orinoco_cs ds i82365] > sb 7296 0 (unused) > sb_lib 32224 0 [sb] > uart401 5984 0 [sb_lib] > sound 52844 0 [sb_lib uart401] > soundcore 3204 5 [sb_lib sound] > isa-pnp 27400 0 [sb] > keybdev 1664 0 (unused) > usbkbd 2848 0 (unused) > input 3040 0 [keybdev usbkbd] > usb-uhci 20676 0 (unused) > usbcore 48000 1 [usbkbd usb-uhci] > > Should airsnort work with this configuration? I keep getting this > message: > > `Could not set monitor mode' > > Google is decidedly silent about this error ;< > > Or, kismet, another example, does not appear to like the orinoco gold > card: > > # sudo kismet_monitor > Using //etc/kismet/kismet.conf sources... > Enabling monitor mode for an orinoco card on eth0 channel 6 > Invalid command : monitor > > # sudo iwpriv eth0 > eth0 Available private ioctl : > force_reset (8BE0) : set 0 & get 0 > card_reset (8BE1) : set 0 & get 0 > set_port3 (8BE2) : set 1 int & get 0 > get_port3 (8BE3) : set 0 & get 1 int > set_preamble (8BE4) : set 1 int & get 0 > get_preamble (8BE5) : set 0 & get 1 int > set_ibssport (8BE6) : set 1 int & get 0 > get_ibssport (8BE7) : set 0 & get 1 int > > > We have seen reference to some `snax' patch; but, I have not found > anything debian about it. > > Elsewise, there are the linux-wlan-ng-modules-*, all of which apparently > require kernels 2.4.20 and above; which, of course, begs the question: > is full wireless support a function of the kernel? > > Moreover, are stock debian kernels adequate to all wireless tasks? Or, > need we compile our own? > > We are confused and no brighter for our research . . . > > What do you think? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linux on the Inspiron 1100 http://geocities.com/randomnumbergenerator2001/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
