Wednesday, July 09, 2003

I wanted to get Kismet working on the Zaurus. Kismet is a utility for detecting wireless lans. But it requires the wireless card to be powered and active before running and I could only get this to happen by first connecting to a wireless lan. I've found intructions that fixes this though. I can now run Kismet happily on the Zaurus and it at least successfully detects my home wireless lan. The commands to turn on the wireless card were: cardctl scheme CardResume cardctl scheme These must be executed as 'root' (by using 'su'). The <scheme-to-use> should be replaced with the name of a wireless networking scheme you've set up for this purpose. All theinstructions to do this, along with installing Kismet, are described here. I still had problems occasionally though with things timing out and the wireless card shutting off. I found the fix in a forum post here. Basically, after the 'cardctl scheme ', it will sometimes hang. Use Ctrl+C to break out and run '/etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng start eth0'. The shell file I use to do all this is: #!/bin/sh cardctl scheme CardResume #The following command will not exit. Ctrl+C out of it. cardctl scheme qpewlan2 /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng start eth0 kismet_monitor #The following command runs text mode Kismet. Use #Shift+Q to exit. You can also run the GUI kismet_qt at #this point to use the GUI. kismet kismet_unmonitor cardctl scheme default 11:34:32 PM