epretorious Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 (edited) Hello, All: I've just installed airfart (airfart-0.2.1-2mdk) and discovered that - along with most of Mandrake 10.0's wireless networking tools - it doesn't work. (Read about my other experiences with M10's wireless tools.) 1. airfart has to be started using the 'run' action (of the Start Menu) - There is no icon for airfart in the Start Menu. 2. Once started it does nothing - even after setting the only configurable setting: the device. Any ideas? Edited October 5, 2004 by epretorious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 (edited) AFter removing orinoco_cs from /etc/modprobe.preload in adding prism2_cs instead, Airfart has begun working. (Airfart installs the wlan-ng package which includes the prism2 wireless kernel modules.) Though it does begin detecting networks airfart complains in the konsole window from which I started it: [root@zippy root]# airfart Starting Airfart... Launching sniffer thread... start_sniffing_thread() Called! Sniffing thread spawned successfully! message=lnxreq_wlansniff enable=true channel=6 prismheader=no_value wlanheader=true keepwepflags=no_value stripfcs=no_value packet_trunc=no_value resultcode=success Warning: Dropped a frame. Frame Contents: ff ff ff ff ff ff aa aa 03 00 00 00 08 00 45 00 ÿÿÿÿÿÿªª ......E. 00 8c 00 28 40 00 40 11 b7 83 c0 a8 00 66 c0 a8 ...(@.@. ·.À¨.fÀ¨ 00 ff 02 77 02 77 00 78 2c 03 33 30 35 36 20 33 .ÿ.w.w.x ,.3056 3 20 69 70 70 3a 2f 2f 31 39 32 2e 31 36 38 2e 30 ipp://1 92.168.0 2e 31 30 32 2f 70 72 69 6e 74 65 72 73 2f 46 72 .102/pri nters/Fr 65 6d 6f 6e 74 5f 4e 4f 43 20 22 46 72 65 6d 6f emont_NO C "Fremo 6e 74 5f 4e 4f 43 22 20 22 48 50 20 4c 61 73 65 nt_NOC" "HP Lase 72 4a 65 74 20 34 30 35 30 22 20 22 48 50 20 4c rJet 405 0" "HP L 61 73 65 72 4a 65 74 20 53 65 72 69 65 73 20 43 aserJet Series C 55 50 53 20 76 31 2e 31 22 0a UPS v1.1 ". Airfart complains about the same dropped frame over and over. (The frame appears to be some sort of beacon sent from my laptop to the printer in my office.) Any ideas what's causing this? :unsure: Edited October 6, 2004 by epretorious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 1. airfart has to be started using the 'run' action (of the Start Menu) - There is no icon for airfart in the Start Menu.2. Once started it does nothing - even after setting the only configurable setting: the device. I stand corrected: There is an item in the Internet -> Other sub-menu. However, it does not function correctly. The command associated with the Internet -> Other -> airfart menu-item (`gksu airfart`) bombs when executed from the Konsole (as a non-root user): [eric@zippy doc]$ gksu airfart Starting Airfart... Launching sniffer thread... start_sniffing_thread() Called! Sniffing thread spawned successfully! sh: line 1: wlanctl-ng: command not found Could not put the card in monitor mode! The device is not present or 'wlanctl-ng' is not in your path or the device refused. sniffing loop bombed out! The only time that airfart runs correctly is when it's started as root (from the Konsole). That's because wlanctl-ng is in /sbin/wlanctl-ng and /sbin is in root's path. Ergo, gksu isn't updating $HOME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 For anybody who might be reading this post, I highly recommend Airsnort or Wellenreiter. Both provide a good deal of information and are easy enough to use. :D airfart works when started from the Konsole as root though the results aren't nearly as comprehensive as Airsnort or Wellenreiter. :blink: Kismet and apradar, however, do not work under M10. :sad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 (edited) Warning: Dropped a frame. Frame Contents: ff ff ff ff ff ff aa aa 03 00 00 00 08 00 45 00 ÿÿÿÿÿÿªª ......E. 00 8c 00 28 40 00 40 11 b7 83 c0 a8 00 66 c0 a8 ...(@.@. ·.À¨.fÀ¨ 00 ff 02 77 02 77 00 78 2c 03 33 30 35 36 20 33 .ÿ.w.w.x ,.3056 3 20 69 70 70 3a 2f 2f 31 39 32 2e 31 36 38 2e 30 ipp://1 92.168.0 2e 31 30 32 2f 70 72 69 6e 74 65 72 73 2f 46 72 .102/pri nters/Fr 65 6d 6f 6e 74 5f 4e 4f 43 20 22 46 72 65 6d 6f emont_NO C "Fremo 6e 74 5f 4e 4f 43 22 20 22 48 50 20 4c 61 73 65 nt_NOC" "HP Lase 72 4a 65 74 20 34 30 35 30 22 20 22 48 50 20 4c rJet 405 0" "HP L 61 73 65 72 4a 65 74 20 53 65 72 69 65 73 20 43 aserJet Series C 55 50 53 20 76 31 2e 31 22 0a UPS v1.1 ". Airfart complains about the same dropped frame over and over. (The frame appears to be some sort of beacon sent from my laptop to the printer in my office.) Any ideas what's causing this? :unsure: FWIW: This error went away when I turned-off CUPS. Edited October 16, 2004 by epretorious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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