kismet, which cards are supported ?

[Andriy Voskoboinyk]

Sun, 03 Jul 2016 16:17:26 +0300 було написано Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org>:

> Hi!
>
>> Automatic mode switching is not supported since r178354; you should
>> manually create an interface with required mode:
>>
>> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev <dev> wlanmode monitor up
>
> Thanks. On a laptop with
>
> FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p4 amd64
>
> and this wlan hardware:
>
> iwn0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x13118086 chip=0x42398086  
> rev=0x35
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'Centrino Advanced-N 6200'
>     class      = network
>     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf2400000, size 8192,  
> enabled
>
> If I do this:
>
> ifconfig wlan0 wlanmode monitor
>
> this is the error message:
>
> ifconfig: wlanmode: bad value

wlanmode can be specified only at the creation time;
try to destroy the interface first:

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 destroy

and, then:

ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0 wlanmode monitor up

>
> So I tested it on another laptop:
>
> With this card:
>
> wpi0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x10118086 chip=0x42278086  
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection'
>     class      = network
>     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xdfcff000, size 4096,  
> enabled
>
>
>   ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode monitor up
>
> worked, but:
>
> Jul  3 15:18:40 xdog kernel: wlan0: permanently promiscuous mode enabled
> Jul  3 15:18:41 xdog kernel: wpi0: could not set power mode
> Jul  3 15:18:41 xdog kernel: wpi0: error 35 settting channel
> Jul  3 15:18:42 xdog kernel: wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 119 not sent, busy
> Jul  3 15:18:42 xdog kernel: wpi0: could not set power mode
> Jul  3 15:18:42 xdog kernel: wpi0: error 35 settting channel
> Jul  3 15:18:43 xdog kernel: wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 119 not sent, busy
> Jul  3 15:18:43 xdog kernel: wpi0: could not set power mode
> Jul  3 15:18:43 xdog kernel: wpi0: error 35 settting channel
> Jul  3 15:18:44 xdog kernel: wpi0: wpi_cmd: cmd 119 not sent, busy
> [...]
>

There were numerous bugfixes for wpi(4) in 11.0 branch; can you upgrade to  
it?