Kismet on OSX 10.5.1 Leopard

[caliel]

UPDATE: The kismet team is having trouble getting info on how to set RFMon
in the Airport drivers that ship with Leopard.  So we must wait.

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:36:40 -0500, caliel <caliel at caliel.no-ip.org> wrote:
> I have returned home from my holiday travels with eager anticipation to
try
> kismet with my ralink USB Wi-Fi card.  Just as I plugged it in, I
realized
> ...... ...... darwin and viha are the only valid capture sources for OSX!
> In my shame and desperation I was heard to utter several words, of which
> my
> mother would NOT approve.  Now I am back to square one with kismet.  Is
it
> my karma keeping kismet from working? or is there another answer to this
> problem?
> 
> Actually, I am not exactly back at square one.  I accidentally left the
> capture source in kismet.conf as "darwin" and changed the interface to
> "en2" which is the ralink.   I got the same output as below, even to the
> point that it indicated the en2 appeared to be a broadcom that already
had
> rfmon set.
> 
> --caliel
> 
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:03:00 -0800 (PST), caliel
<caliel at caliel.no-ip.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am away from access to alternate hardware, please let me know what you
>> find.  I have not found a resolution as yet.  I saw you also responded
> to
>> a
>> post at the Kismet site, perhaps one of the 3 of us will find a
> solution.
>>
>> --C
>>
>> trolley wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> caliel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kismet fails as follows.
>>>>
>>>>      Yliakum:~ caliel$ sudo kismet
>>>>      Password:
>>>>      Launching kismet_server: /opt/local/bin/kismet_server
>>>>      Will drop privs to caliel (502) gid 20
>>>>      No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
>>>>      Non-RFMon VAPs will be destroyed on multi-vap interfaces (ie,
>>>> madwifi-ng)
>>>>      Enabling channel hopping.
>>>>      Enabling channel splitting.
>>>>      INFO:  wlt1 looks like a Broadcom card running under Darwin.
>>>>      Source 0 (airport_extreme): Enabling monitor mode for darwin
>> source
>>>> interface en1 channel 6...
>>>>      î|07-11-19 14:00:48.175 kismet_server[3092:10b] †
>>>>      INFO: en1 looks like a Broadcom card running under Darwin and
>>>> already
>>>> has monitor mode enabled in the kernel.
>>>>      Source 0 (airport_extreme): Opening darwin source interface
>> wlt1...
>>>>      FATAL: BIOCSETIF: wlt1: Device not configured
>>>>      Done.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm getting the same error on a Powerbook G4. Did you figure anything
>> out?
>>> I'm going to try it with a Ralink USB dongle and see if I have any more
>>> luck.
>>>
>>
>> --
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