On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:09:32PM -0600, Andy Warner wrote: > In contrast, Prism-based cards work fairly well in monitor > or promiscuous mode. The developers of the wlan-ng driver > did not put it in the last release (0.1.13), but there's > a patch that supposedly adds promiscuous mode to it. > > o Latest wlan-ng driver: > > ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.13.tar.gz > > o promiscuous patch: > > http://www.shaftnet.org/~pizza/software/0132-promisc-v23.diff > > I've not tried this patch myself yet, I only read about it > this morning.. I'm using this patch.. > > Kismet may need monitor mode to get access to the 802.11 headers, > and I think that mode is well supported in the vanilla 0.1.13 > driver. Any local kismet users care to chime in ? Kismet works fine without the patch, but works better with it, I use a combination of prismstumbler and kismet, along with some of my own toys. > -- > andyw at pobox.com > > Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634 -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203