wireless setup - orinoco gold

[carpman]

Hello, need a bit help getting my wireless nic setup.

Specs

Proxim - Orinico Gold 11.b/g
Kernel = 2.6.12-gentoo-r4

Have compiled wireless stuff into kernel.

lspci =

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0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

Have emerge:

madwifi-driver
kismet

Have configured kismet

When inserted card power light flashes.

running kismet i get:

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 # kismet
Server options:  none
Client options:  none
Starting server...
Waiting for server to start before starting UI...
Will drop privs to michael (1000) gid 442
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
Source 0 (Atheros): Enabling monitor mode for madwifi_g source interface ath0 channel 6...
FATAL: GetIFFlags: interface ath0: No such device

i have done:

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 cp net.eth0 to net.ath0

I have an onboard nic that runs on eth0.

I think i need to do something to /etc/rc.conf/net but not sure what?

I don't currently have a home wireless point, though hope to in few weeks, this said i was hoping to do a bit wardriving to check email etc on the move.


any pointers?

Have done search but not found anything clear and concise to help out.

cheers

[-neX-]

ok. i dont use gentoo on my laptop, but i do have an orinocco silver that i run under linux. so a couple of things..

-- does the iface come up when you do ifconfig ehtN up|down? you didnt mention.
-- are you using the patched drivers that allow for monitor mode? kismet/airtraf/airsnort requires this. apparently the orinocco drivers versins >= .15 no longer need this patch. [see below]
-- if you run lsmod, do you see the driver 'orinoco_cs' loaded?
-- you may need to update/install firmware for the card. [ i have to do this for the intel 2200bg card that i have ]
-- you may need to actually emerge the drivers.

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root@axis nex # emerge search orinoco* 
Searching...   
[ Results for search key : orinoco* ]
[ Applications found : 3 ]
 
*  net-wireless/orinoco
      Latest version available: 0.15_rc2-r2
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 96 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/
      Description: ORiNOCO wireless driver
      License:     GPL-2 MPL-1.1

*  net-wireless/orinoco-cvs [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 0.15_rc2
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/
      Description: ORiNOCO IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN driver
      License:     GPL-2 MPL-1.1

*  net-wireless/orinoco-usb-firmware [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 0.1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 6 kB
      Homepage:    http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/
      Description: Firmware for ORiNOCO USB IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN driver
      License:     Avaya

[carpman]

Thanks for reply, although it is marked as orinico i believe that it uses Atheros driver, i am uses madwifi-driver so should not need to emerge orinico drivers!

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# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ath_pci                53152  0
ath_rate_onoe           7240  1 ath_pci
wlan                  108444  3 ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal               146896  2 ath_pci

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 # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:13:6D:3F:20
          inet addr:192.168.1.6  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:18692 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1100 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:21580011 (20.5 Mb)  TX bytes:1577313 (1.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:4 Base address:0x1800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:180 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:9072 (8.8 Kb)  TX bytes:9072 (8.8 Kb)

Ok when i insert card i find following in /var/log/messages which indicates that it may be working but as i don't have an access point it fails?

How can i get it to go into monitor mode if this is the case?

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# tail /var/log/messages
Jul 17 10:39:31 prospero ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
Jul 17 10:39:31 prospero ath0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
Jul 17 10:39:31 prospero ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
Jul 17 10:39:31 prospero ath0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
Jul 17 10:39:31 prospero ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xec100000, irq=10
Jul 17 10:39:31 prospero ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xec100000, irq=10
Jul 17 10:39:35 prospero rc-scripts:   no access points found
Jul 17 10:39:35 prospero rc-scripts:   no access points found
Jul 17 10:39:35 prospero rc-scripts: Couldn't find any access points on ath0
Jul 17 10:39:35 prospero rc-scripts: Failed to configure wireless for ath0

Cheers

[x ScHeMeR 1]

How can i get it to go into monitor mode if this is the case?

ok I think I might be able to help. Here are the steps to put a WNIC into monitor mode using the MADWifi driver:

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# iwpriv ath0 mode 2                        <- (puts card into 802.11b only mode)
# iwconfig ath0 mode Monitor channel 6      <- (enter desired channel: 1-11. example sets to channel 6)
# ifconfig ath0 up

Thats it. The first option sets the card to sniff 802.11b traffic, the default (no need to set) is mode 1 (b/g), mode 3 is 802.11g only. I showed you "b only" mode because most AP's are using b and most wardriving programs wont work with the other modes you will have to try your luck. Also, you will pick up mixed b/g networks in mode 2.

As far as your code snippets from kismet. It looks as though you didnt setup your /etc/kismet.conf. You should set it up for your card, they provide an example and the readme details the options. It is pretty straight forward. When using kismet you do not need to use the above mentioned steps to put the card into monitor mode. Kismet does all of that for you. Just configure kismet using the conf file and kismet ddoes thte rest.

Hope this helps.

[carpman]

Ok i have now moved house and have decided to get this up and running

Well it is up and running .. sort of


If i fire up kimet as root in user dir it works and find my AP plus one other, kismet does not work if start as user, is this right?


So have established that card is working and finding AP, trouble is how do i get connect to even my own AP?

Set is thus:

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Main network

Cable modem - smoothwall firewall/dhcp/proxy etc - switch serving downstairs plus cable to upstairs switch which serves upstairs

Network IP

smoothwall 
green 192.168.1.1
orange 192.168.0.1

Hard wired PC on network mostly have perm IP but couple use dhcp


For testing i have connected access point to upstairs switch and set AP IP as 192.168.1.20, if i can get things working i will move it to smoothwall orange with IP 192.168.0.2

Settings on netbook with wireless card

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/etc/conf.d/net
iface_eth0="192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255"

iface_ath0="192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255"

gateway="eth0/192.168.1.1"

also

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/etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
Caching service dependencies ...
Starting ath0
Configuring wireless network for ath0
coundn't associate with any access points on ath0
failed to configure wireless for ath0

AP Netgear WG302UK settings

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wireless is on
operating mode set to auto 11/b/g
Authentication is set to WPA2-PSK
Pre shared key is 64 characters long
dhcp server is off

As far as i tell there are two issues, first is connecting to my own network nice and safely, second is being able to do bit of wardriving when on the move.

Any ideas where i am going wrong?