kismet, hostap, Prism2.5

[Auer, Karl James]

Hi there.

I can't get lismet (a wireless sniffer) working with hostap. Kismet aborts with an error message saying that "Set Frequency" is not supported. I/m running SuSE 8.2, kernel 2.4.20, hostap 0.1.1. The PCI wireless card is reported by hostap as an "Intersil Prism 2.5"; "cat /proc/pci" says "Network Controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 1)".

Kismet does see the carda nd outputs quite a bit of information about the setup, but it can't get past that error.

Any ideas? Should Kismet work with HostAP? The Kismet docs suggest it should, as do a couple of wireless FAQs, though the latter mention only 2, not 2.5...

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer. If anyone is using hostap and a Prism2.5 card with Kismet, I'd love to see your working Kismet config files.

Regards, K.



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> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: hostap-bounces+karl.auer=id.ethz.ch at shmoo.com
> [mailto:hostap-bounces+karl.auer=id.ethz.ch at shmoo.com] Im 
> Auftrag von Jouni Malinen
> Gesendet: Montag, 3. November 2003 10:54
> An: hostap at shmoo.com
> Betreff: Re: Problem with compiling hostap-driver-0.1.1.tar.gz
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:33:02AM +0100, Ingo Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > I tried to compile hostap-driver-0.1.1.tar.gz on new SuSE
> 9.0 (kernel
> > 2.4.21 with SuSE extensions) and got attached error message. The
> > problem is obviously that there is a problem with the HZ 
> macro, which
> > has been changed in this kernel version (or in the according SuSE
> > changes?).
> 
> SuSE has probably changed the HZ definition to be based on
> configuration option or something similar and something is 
> not included when compiling external modules.. Could you tell 
> me where I can download SuSE 2.4.21-99 kernel? I tried to 
> find it from a mirror of SuSE ftp site, but it was nowhere to 
> be found (well, maybe in an ISO image or something, but I'm 
> not going to download 650 MB to get a look at one header file).
> 
> > I changed following two lines
> > 
> > static int ap_max_inactivity[MAX_PARM_DEVICES] = {
> AP_MAX_INACTIVITY /
> > HZ,DEF_INTS };
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > static int ap_max_inactivity[MAX_PARM_DEVICES] = { 300, DEF_INTS };
> 
> I see nothing wrong in having HZ on that line, so I'm not
> going to change that unless someone can show that this is 
> really needed and the correct fix.
> 
> > Here the the result of make pci:
> 
> Did you try compiling with just 'make'? This uses the kernel
> Makefile to compile the module and whatever was done to HZ 
> definition, has a better change of working..
> 
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