hi ya christian On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: > FATAL: Dump file error: Unable to open wtap dump file: Kismet-Jul-21-2004-1.dump (Permission denied) what user are you running kismet as ?? - you define christian in kismet conf file /usr/local/etc/kismet.conf - you need to invoke kismet as christian than user ethereal or other apps to read the Kismet-Jul-21-2004-1.dump file c ya alvin