Kismet on OSX 10.5.1 Leopard

[Ben Greenfield]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Walt Scrivens wrote:

> No, it was only working in active mode.  I passive mode it runs for  
> a few seconds and dies.  It also leaves the AirPort disconnected.   
> Here's teh dump file it created - I don't know if that will help  
> anyone.

I have .21a rev.242 running on a macbook air in passive and active  
mode. I had to set my bpf device in advanced preferences to match my  
airport card.

I'm using Apple Airport Extreme card, passive mode driver.

>
>
> Model: MacBookPro1,1, BootROM MBP11.0055.B08, 2 processors, Intel  
> Core Duo, 2.16 GHz, 2 GB
> Graphics: kHW_ATIr520Item, ATY,RadeonX1600, spdisplays_pcie_device,  
> 256 MB
> Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
> Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
> AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C,  
> 0x86), 1.3.2
> Bluetooth: Version 2.1.0f14, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial  
> ports
> Network Service: Parallels NAT, Ethernet, en3
> Network Service: Parallels Host-Guest, Ethernet, en4
> Serial ATA Device: ST9100824AS, 93.16 GB
> Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-857
> USB Device: Built-in iSight, Micron, high_speed, 500 mA
> USB Device: iPod, Apple, high_speed, 500 mA
> USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, Apple Computer,  
> full_speed, 500 mA
> USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, Apple, Inc., full_speed,  
> 500 mA
> USB Device: IR Receiver, Apple Computer, Inc., full_speed, 500 mA
>
> On the whole I'm pretty discouraged with KisMac and would rather use  
> plain vanilla kismet, except that does not work either.  From what I  
> read it's all Apple's fault and I don't know if there will ever be a  
> workaround.

I have read this and wordered since it does work for me.

Ben

>
>
> Fortunately I have a Zaurus and a Nokia 800, both of which run  
> kismet just fine.  I can take the files created by either to the Mac  
> for analysis with Wireshark.  (Now if CACE Technologies would come  
> out with a Mac version of AirPcap and their channel-hopping  
> modification of wireshark....)
>
> Walt
>
>
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:32 PM, gcorominas at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> did you get it working on leopard??
>> i got a macbook pro core duo (july 2006) running leopard (10.5.1),  
>> and can't get it working in passive mode.
>> did you get it working in passive?
>> Searching at google, I haven't seen anybody that has got it working  
>> in passive mode on leopard...
>>
>> Please explain how you did it!
>>
>> thanks
>> walts wrote:
>>>
>>> That worked!  I have only my own home network to look at here - will
>>> have to wait until I get to work tomorrow where I have a more robust
>>> test environment to really give this a workout, but it looks
>>> promising.  Thanks for the help!
>>>
>>> Walt
>>>
>>> On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:26 PM, paul beard wrote:
>>>
>>>> [SNIP]
>>>> Hmm, I have r239 . . . it seems to work just fine. latest version
>>>> seems to be 242.
>>>>
>>>> [SNIP]
>>>> -- 
>>>> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
>>>> <paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at gmail.com>
>>>
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>>> Leopard (10.5.1)
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>>>
>> Quoted from:
>> http://www.nabble.com/Kismet-on-OSX-10.5.1-Leopard-tp13843207p16085962.html
>>
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