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Re: Which wireless card for monitor-mode support in the *stock* kernel?




Tim Sailer a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:24:58PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> 
>>To clarify what I'm looking for, I want:
>>- PCMCIA card with some common external antenna jack (like MMCX).
>>- "Out-of-the-box" monitor support. By that, I mean that I can 
>>install/boot a stock Debian "kernel-image-2.6.x-686", and then type 
>>"iwconfig eth1 mode monitor" and it *just works*! No downloading 
>>patches, no installing firmware.
>>- If it's 802.11g, that's great... but it's not mandatory.
> 
> 
> Have you just tried to use kismet with the card installed? I have
> a Netgear WG11 card, and all I had to do to get kismet to work
> was set the right stuff in the .conf file, and fire up kismet.
> 
> Tim
> 

Hello,

I can confirm that it works with this card, but it's not exactly
"out-of-the-box" because you'll have to download the firmware and
compile the module in the kernel ;-)

-- 

Flo





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