epretorious Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 Do I need to patch the source and recompile the kernel to get monitor mode in orinoco? According to The Latest News & Updates page of the Linux ORiNOCO Driver site, version 0.15 contains "Monitor mode support" but when I go to enable monitor mode, iwconfig complains: [epretorious@localhost Desktop]$ uname -r 2.6.17-5mdv [epretorious@localhost Desktop]$ rpm -q kernel-2.6.17.5mdv kernel-2.6.17.5mdv-1-1mdv2007.0 [epretorious@localhost Desktop]$ /sbin/pccardctl info PRODID_1="Lucent Technologies" PRODID_2="WaveLAN/IEEE" PRODID_3="Version 01.01" PRODID_4="" MANFID=0156,0002 FUNCID=6 Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff: excluding 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa8400000-0xb7ffffff: excluding 0xa8400000-0xa8bfffff 0xa9c00000-0xac3fffff Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost ifplugd(eth3)[7984]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing. Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost ifplugd(eth3)[7984]: Using interface eth3/00:02:2D:B5:8A:E0 with driver <orinoco> (version: 0.15) Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost ifplugd(eth3)[7984]: Using detection mode: SIOCETHTOOL Apr 19 22:41:56 localhost ifplugd(eth3)[7984]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected. Apr 19 22:41:57 localhost kernel: eth3: New link status: Connected (0001) Apr 19 22:41:57 localhost ifplugd(eth3)[7984]: Link beat detected. Apr 19 22:41:58 localhost ifplugd(eth3)[7984]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth3 up'. [root@localhost ifplugd]# /sbin/iwconfig eth3 mode monitor Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth3; Operation not supported. Why can't I set the card's mode to "monitor"? FWIW: Monitor mode works for my Intel ipw2200 and my Prism 2-based pcmcia card. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted April 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 (edited) The kernel output from the BackTrack2 Live-CD is more verbose: BT ~ # cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", "" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network) BT ~ # dmesg | tail -20 pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al) orinoco_cs 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al) eth2: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002 eth2: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0034 eth2: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.52 eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth2: MAC address 00:02:2D:B5:8A:E0 eth2: Station name "HERMES I" eth2: ready eth2: orinoco_cs at 0.0, irq 3, io 0x5100-0x513f eth2: Monitor mode support is buggy in this firmware, not enabling ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready eth2: New link status: Connected (0001) ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready eth2: Monitor mode support is buggy in this firmware, not enabling eth2: no IPv6 routers present eth2: Monitor mode support is buggy in this firmware, not enabling It appears that the firmware of my YDI Diamond (i.e., Orinoco Silver) card isn't supported: From The Latest News & Updates page of the Linux ORiNOCO Driver site ... Changes compared with the latest stable release (0.13e): * Scanning support. * Monitor mode support (except Agere firmware 7.xx and 8.xx). Edited April 21, 2007 by epretorious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Hi epretorious, Can your Orinoco card do WPA encyption in Linux? I have an Orinoco Gold card but can't seem to get a WPA connection in Mandriva Linux even though WPA works in Windows after I got the latest driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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