Re: [Airsnort-user] getting airsnort to work with Orinoco card

[Corvus C. <cor...@cy...>]

Am Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:10:33 -0400
schrieb Brian Sammon <br...@cs...>:

> Okay, I've gotten airsnort to work with the latest orinoco drivers.  The 
> drivers don't need to be patched any longer.
> According to someone on the orinoco list, now you use "iwconfig" instead of 
> "iwpriv" to manually set monitor mode.
> Anyways, the problem with Airsnort was that I had to do "ifconfig eth1 up" 
> before running airsnort.  I notice that for Prism cards, airsnort does this 
> for you.  I have an orinoco/wavelan card.  Would it make sense to have 
> airsnort do this for my card as well?
> 
> Finally, I have another patch that made it easier to detect the problem.  (The 
> patch includes some unnecessary rearranging that I thought made the code a 
> little easier to follow)
> 
> 

Sounds intresting, well seems like my knowledge is already a little outdated again ;-/
maybe i should try updating my orinoco driver sometimes ;)

i dont know why airsnort shouldnt bring up the interface for orinoco type cards when it already does for prism based,
maybe it has historical reasons (for example prism need to put down and up again to enter monitoring while orinoco doesnt) dunno.
definitely a feature request though, but i dont know if development on airsnort is currently active - im just a user.

cya

Corvus