| Posted by: | wiz561 |
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| Subject: | Kismet setup on Linksys WRT54G - success! |
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| Date: | 03:37:55 07/11/2003 |
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This sounds like a pretty neat project, but a few questions. 1) Why would I want to use my WRT54g? I'm assuming that I would be able to get a lot more power from it, but I was wondering if there's anything else.
Then 2)... The WRT54g is based on a broadcom chipset. I am one of the many who "love" my broadcom chipset wireless card. (I have a dell truemobile 1400 mini-pci card). If you have one of these devices, it won't work with Linux because there is not a driver for it. From what I heard, Broadcom isn't going to release one anytime soon because you can reprogram the freq's on it or something.
Soooooo.... If this driver will work with a WRT54g box, I'm wondering if it's a start on a driver for a broadcom wireless card in linux....crossing fingers!
Mike
> It works great and WRT54G remains operational, i.e. you still can use it to provide wireless connectivity. Here is the short version of what you need to do.
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> 1. Get WRT54G firmware v1.30.7
> 2. Install Wrt54g_tools, make sure that you can get shell and copy files to the router (http://cj.colliertech.org/swn/)
> 3. Compile and install Kismet on your workstation
> 4. Crosscompile kismet_drone for mipsel.
> 5. Create dummy kismet_monitor script consisting of one line:
> #!/bin/sh
> Edit kismet_drone.conf appropriately. You are going to use generic capture and allow logins from your local network:
> source=generic,eth2,Kismet
> allowedhosts=192.168.1.0/24
> 6. Copy kismet_drone, edited kismet_drone.conf and the dummy kismet_monitor to your WRT54G box.
> 7. Login to your WRT54G. Put wireless interface in monitor mode and start kismet_drone
> 8. Configure kismet_server on your local workstation to use drone source and launch kismet_server
> source=drone,192.168.1.1:3501,drone
> enablesources=drone
> 9. Launch kismet_client and enjoy the awesome power of Kismet :-)
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> If someone is interested in more details, please, post to the forum, I'll try to make my installation notes available.
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> Cheers,
> Alex
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