clarification - Re: [Madwifi-users] madwifi+kismet lockup

[Alvin O. <alvin@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Georg Lukas wrote:

> I had the same problems with madwifi on 2.4.25 with different kismet
> releases. Some testing revealed, that the hard lockups happen too after
> running the following script for some seconds:

i've been playing w/ slackware-9.1 w/ 2.4.26 w/ openwall patches
and fedora(2) w/ 2.6.6  
both with latest madwifi cvs updates  and latest kismet

i assume by lockup, you folks are not talking about 
"iwconfig ath0 mode monitor"  where the machine running kismet
can't send/receive ping responses while monitoring the traffic

i'm using ping to test the connectivity and sniff what i can see
for a first step tests
	- took me too long to figure out why the machine died
	each time i fired up kismet, and comes back to life 
	almost immediately after killing kismet :-)

have fun
alvin