While I was compiling a new kernel for my Notebook and switching to udev (which all worked pretty fine), I came to the idea of having two WLAN NICs up at the same time. Wondering if it is possible, I started ath0 (which is an integrated Atheros based card) to associate with my AP in my home network (via wpa_supplicant), inserted an Orinoco Silver card and ran Kismet (which is configured to use eth1, the Orinoco card).
But: as soon as I start Kismet, ath0 is brought down by it's net.ath0-script. The two cards work fine separately.
Is there a way to set up a scenario like this? I switched hotplug_eth0 and _ath0 to "no" in conf.d/net and tried with "lo" as well as with "none" for RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in conf.d/rc.
Regards,
basquiat
Two wireless cards up at the same time?
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- NeddySeagoon
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basquiat,
It should be OK if they are both on seperate subnets.
If you are thinking of doing bonding, so they have the same logical interface name, don't bother, Wireless is a half duplex system that any one device can max out. There is no advantage to having two interfaces accessing the same AP.
It should be OK if they are both on seperate subnets.
If you are thinking of doing bonding, so they have the same logical interface name, don't bother, Wireless is a half duplex system that any one device can max out. There is no advantage to having two interfaces accessing the same AP.
Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.