On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:22:34AM -0400, Daniel wrote: > I've been away from debian for a little while and am having a hard time > coming to terms with my wlan card. > > I'm running the stock 2.4.21-5-i686 kernel on a Dell Inspiron. > I insert my Wlan card (Nortel/Symbol e-mobility), and the cardmgr loads > the orinoco and orinoco_cs modules and autoconfigures the interface with > pump. > I've set up a pcmcia scheme to configure ESSID, WEP key etc. > > The problems/questions: > Kismet is broken. Also most iwconfig commands except for ESSID and > key. I think I need to install wlan-ng. I gather this is different from > the existing drivers. Is there a stock kernel with this support enabled > or do I need to roll my own? Or can I get away with just downloading the > linux-wlan-ng debs? > You will need to patch your orinoco drivers for monitor mode support(kismet needs this). Since there is no debian package for this that I know of you will need to compile your kernel yourself... Get the source for whichever kernel you want to run, then do: $ head -n1 [kernel source dir]/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.c That will give you the version of the orinoco driver. Then you get the appropriate .diff file from: http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html and(from the same directory as orinoco_cs.c), do patch -p1 < orinoco-xxx-patched.diff Or, if you really don't want to compile a new kernel you can find links to the standalone orinoco drivers on that same page(these are the same drivers as the in-kernel ones), and simply patch/build/install those... Jonah
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