Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000

Jesús Vidal Panalés jesusvpct at vodafone.es
Tue Oct 18 15:15:03 EDT 2011


El 18/10/11 20:30, Larry Finger escribió:
> On 10/18/2011 12:23 PM, Jesús Vidal Panalés wrote:
>> El 18/10/11 17:34, Larry Finger escribió:
>>> On 10/18/2011 10:05 AM, Jesús Vidal Panalés wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Running Wireshark on this laptop and capturing wireless interface 
>>>> does not show
>>>> traffic at all. So there is something wrong.
>>>
>>> For unknown reasons, wireshark fails to capture data on my computer 
>>> as well
>>> abd my BCM4303 works. Use kismet.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Ok. I've installed kismet, i've edited kismet.conf file, setting only 
>> source to
>> this: source=b43legacy,wlan0,addme
>>
>> I ran kismet, and i can see my wifi essid. Packts is updating 
>> everytime, so
>> sniffing is working fine. Now, what can i do with kismet to probe if 
>> my card is
>> sending packets?
>
> In general, do not drop the mailing list from the distribution list. 
> ALWAYS use "reply-all". All of my debugging is made available on the 
> list. If you do not accept that restriction, then I will be unable to 
> help you.
>

Ok, i thought that "reply to the list" on thunderbird was working 
fine...sudo -s
sorry

> You can analyze the .pcap file produced by kismet with wireshark. Look 
> for probe requests from your BCM4303 and the response from the AP. If 
> you cannot analyze the data, it is OK to send the pcap file to me 
> privately. I will limit the traffic to just your ESSID and post it on 
> the list if I cannot figure out what is wrong.
>
> Larry
>
>
>

Uhmmm....my bcm4301 is not sending any packets. In fact, using kismet if 
i execute dmesg i don't see any message trying to connect on the 
output...there is only inizitialization of the driver.



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