Kismet/Wireless

Kismet and Wireless Stuff ... Extended development logs, up and coming features, and general wireless link-whorery.

Kismet-Newcore CHANGELOG

Kismet-Stable CHANGELOG

New CACE binaries

Loris @ CACE has built a new setup.exe for Kismet 2008-05 on Windows using the AirPcap (remember folks, the AirPcap is still the only device in windows with rfmon-capable drivers that have a public interface... Sorry, you'll still need to get one if you want native capture on windows with Kismet.) It's on the download page and on the CACE page.

The Last Hope

For anyone on the east coast, you should come to The Last Hope this summer.

I'll be there running the network and wifi.

Post in the forums if you're coming (Probably makes sense to start a new topic and post it all in there), maybe everyone can coordinate hanging out.

Pending release, Nokia

Nokia 8x0 support is the last thing preventing there from being a new stable release. Someone on IRC said they were working on some packaging for it and would send me patches, so once I get them, I'll merge them in and do a release.

That said, Maemo support is no more stable than it was before: Maybe half the time it works, the other half of the time it drops dead a few seconds into running and you have to reboot the unit. You also have to reboot when you're done running or the battery drains extremely quickly. Messing with power control and wlancond didn't help: stopping wlancond entirely and disabling power control, the device still drops dead randomly and stops getting packets.

Enough people have been asking that it's going to be released with these known problems. Good luck.

Loris @ CACE has built a new setup.exe for Kismet 2008-05 on Windows using the AirPcap (remember folks, the AirPcap is still the only device in windows with rfmon-capable drivers that have a public interface... Sorry, you'll still need to get one if you want native capture on windows with Kismet.) It's on the download page and on the CACE page.

N810 GPS TTFF problem

For those using an 810, you might have noticed an often abysmal time-to-first-fix (I sure have). Try this:

http://vilunki.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/solution-to-n810-gps-problems/

Kismet on Nokia 8x0

Kismet finally works (for most definitions of work) on the Nokia 8x0 tablets running OS2008.

Generally things behave (even GPS, after rewriting it to handle the broken GPSD in Maemo and falling back to R=1 debug mode), however coming OUT of Kismet will leave the system in a bad state, namely, the power management changes necessary don't revert cleanly when applying the old power profile, so you'll severely truncate your battery life if you don't reboot.

Beta packages will be available sometime soon-ish once I do a little more investigation into how to restore power states, followed by a full release of Stable.

New release pending

New release is pending on me getting stuff done for the nokia 800/810 to try to finally eke out some stability there, if there are any patches now is the time to start sending them to me. (Check the svn changelog, most of the annoying glitches from the last release are taken care of).

Kismet and Leopard

So, Apple changed some things around when they did Leopard, and broke the recently-added Kismet support. BUT, it's fixed now in SVN, and as soon as some Maemo stuff is done I'll package it into a release. For those who want to get into it now, a *very* current libpcap is a must. From CVS current. This is because it seems Leopard subtly changes how it does DLT enumeration, which means existing libpcap releases won't find the 802.11 DLT and won't be able to figure out how to flip it into rfmon mode.

With Leopard, the wltN device has gone away, give Kismet the enX device. The device initialization code on the darwin source will figure out your kernel version and try to Do The Right Thing.

What kismet needs for n800/n770

What I think Kismet needs to have for me to do an official release on the 770/800:

* dbus communication to the wlan control program to suspend network scanning while kismet is running * launcher scripts to bring kismet up in a terminal automatically * bluetooth gps detection scripts to detect GPS units and use them, integration with the os2007 gpsd system

I don't know when I'll have time to work on adding these, so consider this a call for assistance from anyone who wants to get proper support going. Contact me over email or in the forums if you've got patches.

Kismet and Spectools releases

Long time brewing, 2007-10-R1 releases for both Kismet and Spectrum Tools. Kismet gets major memory reductions and major speed increases in the client, which means it should no longer slow to a crawl and fall down around 1000 networks. Also a bunch of fixes for memory corruption (weird client crashes should be mostly, if not totally, resolved now) which were all internal memory corruption issues, so no security concerns there as far as I know. Basic 802.11N IE tag parsing so now 11n networks show up properly, support for broadcom and atheros devices on Darwin/OSX, fixed support for mac80211 devices in Linux in general, explicit card types for iwl3945, iwl4965, and ath5k drivers, and tons of general little fixes and cleanups. If you compile this one with a recent gcc (4.2), expect a TON of warnings... At this stage, it's not worth my time to fix that in kismet-stable, however I will try to reduce them in kismet-newcore. Thanks to everyone who contributed patches for Kismet!

Also a long time in the making, Spectrum Tools are out. They're the evolution of wispy-tools, and include support for the wispy1 and new wispy2 hardware, a new UI, multi-device support, network streaming, and other cool stuff.