On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:05, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:25:11AM -0700, Adam Done wrote: > > FATAL: Could not find 'monitor' private ioctl or use the newer style > > 'mode monitor' command. This typically means that the drivers have not > > been patched or the correct drivers are being loaded. See the > > troubleshooting section of the README for more information. > > > > I just got my wirless network up over the weekend and been needing to > > check some security with kismet but I don't know if I am supposed to put > > the airport card in monitor mode and if so I have not found anything > > under iwconfig. > > The orinoco driver doesn't have monitor nor scanning support for cards with > 8.xx firmware (which OS X flashes on the card (on update, but also on > boot I believe). > I have disabled the firmware check in the 0.15rc2 drivers (far better > than stock kernel), I have scanning support now, but monitor support > breaks immediately (and then one knows the reason why it was disable for > 8.xx firmware). > > See also: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5017450&forum_id=11432 > > Paul > > --
Thank you for that link. It was very good reading. From the looks of it.. I will just wait till I upgrade to a PCMIA card with a driver that will support monitoring and I will just keep what I have. Thank you for the input, and now I know as to before I had no clue. -Adam
