6.0-BETA5, kismet & iwi ...

From: M. L. (user_at_celeritystorm.com)
Date: 10/02/05

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    Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:14:26 +0100
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    Hi list,

    I've just upgraded my laptop to 6.0-BETA5, hoping I finally would be
    able to have functional wireless.. things didn't go quite as I expected,
    tho.

    My wireless card is an Intel 2200BG, supported on FreeBSD by the iwi
    driver. I had it installed prior to upgrading by downloading from
    http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ , but removed it and added device
    iwi to the 6.0 kernel instead. Now it always complains about "iwi0:
    Please load firmware."

    So, I went to damien's site again, only to find that the download link
    had been removed, and a reference to ports/net/iwi-firmware was there
    instead. I've tried to install the port, and it says I've already got
    iwi(4) support, and won't let install anything. I'm left with a iwi0
    that has no firmware, an so is worthless. Is the firmware somewhere in
    the base 6.0 system ?

    The other problem is kismet. Looking at the (poor) kismet documentation,
    the best I could get from it was that I needed to define radiotap_bsd_x
    as my capture source on kismet.conf. The documentation isn't clear about
    what X is, so I've tried:

    - radiotap_bsd_x
    - radiotap_bsd_g
    - radiotap_fbsd_x
    - radiotap_fbsd_g

    Either way, it says the capture type is unknown. Then I tried with
    capture type ipw2200, and kismet said it wasn't built.

    So.. where is the iwi firmware or where can I download it (pkg_add -r
    iwi-firmware doesn't work btw), and how to make kismet happy about my
    iwi0 card ?

    Thanks in advance.

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