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Re: Netgear wg511, 2.6/Sarge - weird? -- no, not weird any more: apparent success.



Rusty Carruth:
> 
> kernel: Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
> kernel: PCI Enabling device 0000:09:00.00 (0000 -> 0002)
> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt ...blah...
> pci.agent[4578]: prism54: loaded successfully

Congratulations, you have a working wifi card.

>    ifconfig eth2 up
> 
> and suddenly it says 'IEEE 802.11b/g' instead of 'NOT READY!'
> Thats a BIG improvement.
> 
> I then tried 'iwlist eth2 scan', and get no scan results (Oh,
> the green light is STILL off!)

The light is switched off when you are in monitor mode. Maybe you
switched to monitor before scanning?

> ! linksys   A N 006  178 T4 192.168.1.102  234B
> ! HOLZ    A O 006  121       0.0.0.0                70B
> ! argoweb A O 006 119       0.0.0.0    0B
>  <no ssid>  P N ---   5   0.0.0.0 0B
>  linksys_SES_51740 A O 006  1 0.0.0.0 0B

Looks fine. I Like that 'linksys' thing. ;-)

> and then suddenly kismet died, with:
> 
> /usr/bin/kismet: line 80: 4818 Segmentation fault ${BIN}/kismet_client 

May be just a problem with kismet (although it never crashed for me).

> So, I tried airsnort again and:
> 
> Oooh!  Look!  AirSnort is now seeing packets!  It says:
> 00:0f:b5:EF:.....  CAME... Thu, Sep 1 00:57... channel 10, 195 packets, 
> 1 encrypted, 0 interesting, 1 unique
> FF:FF:FF:FF...             46 packets, 0 encrypt, 0 interesting, 0 uniq.
> 
> (It is interesting to me that airsnort only sees one (or maybe that's
> two) things, but kismet saw 3 (or is that 5???))

Last time I used it, airsnort wasn't able to enable "channel hopping" on
the card- That may be the reason for the smaller number of packets.
Kismet can do this (you may have noticed how the channel displayin
kismet is permanently changing - lock it with 'L').

Anyway, airsnort is not a network detector, but a WEP key cracker.
Should you want to do this, you better collect packets with kismet and
use aircrack (only with permission of the network owner, of course).

> I don't have any permission to connect anywhere yet, so I won't
> try till I can run over to my neighbors, but I *think* we're up...
> Especially since ifconfig says that we've gotten 1.3 MiB from 13016 received
> packets (now, I wonder why I sent 5 packets?  hmmm)

DHCP?

> So, apparently the Netgear 802.11g card with NO info on where it was
> made is a prism54g card and sort of works.

Good to hear.

J.
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