FS#11334 - Kismet non-function for Intel 3945 wifi

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jeremy Sands (georgia_tech_swagger) - Thursday, 28 August 2008, 20:08 GMT
Last edited by Hugo Doria (hdoria) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 22:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jason Chu (jason)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

# kismet
(snip)
FATAL: Unknown capture source type 'iwl3945' in source 'iwl3945,wlan0,i3945'

Simply updating the PKGBUILD should be sufficient. The version in the repos is 2007_01_R1b-3. Kismet docs say iwl3956 is the right identifier for the iwl3945 driver.

According to the kismet website:
Latest Stable: Kismet-2008-05-R1
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Closed by  Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 22:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jeremy Sands (georgia_tech_swagger) - Thursday, 28 August 2008, 20:09 GMT
Excuse the above typo ... Kismet docs say **iwl3945** is the right identifier.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 28 August 2008, 21:05 GMT
maybe 2007_10_R1-2 from testing fixes this?
Comment by Jeremy Sands (georgia_tech_swagger) - Thursday, 28 August 2008, 21:19 GMT
I'll try it when I get a moment ... but if we're going to update the package to fix this, might as well update to most recent? The one in testing is still the better part of a year out of date.
Comment by João Rodrigues (gothicknight) - Wednesday, 03 September 2008, 10:11 GMT
From testing the iwl3945 works (at least it has support for it), although it doesn't capture any data packages :(
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Thursday, 04 December 2008, 10:37 GMT
Forget it, monitor mode and injection do not work with iwl3945, the wireless guys are not happy about it, but it seems Intel is not interested in supporting these features.
Comment by Jeremy Sands (georgia_tech_swagger) - Thursday, 04 December 2008, 12:50 GMT
That's not accurate. I installed the very latest kismet a month or two ago and it works great with the iwl3945 driver. The problem is kismet is woefully out of date in the repos.
Comment by JM (fijam) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 17:06 GMT
There is Kismet 2008_05_R1-2 in the repos right now, does it work?

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