Wireless Saga…

Well, I finally got the wireless stuff working under Linux. I was browsing the web and pinging to my heart’s content.

But, I can’t make kismet work properly. With the lowest firmware version it doesn’t grab anything. With the highest, kismet crashes the PCMCIA driver looking like something’s failing and the card isn’t able to handle data that fast. Anything in between I can’t get to flash for some reason. So, I thought I’d try the absolute latest PCMCIA card services. Installed those, didn’t help. Installed the original version that I was using (3.2.1), rebooted, now the box core dumps every time it goes to load the PCMCIA stuff. But only with the kernel that I made. I think I need to somehow get in there and rip out all the PCMCIA stuff and start over. It wasn’t hard to make it work, I can do it again. However, I want it to just work.

Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to get the card flashed to a known-working firmware level with a Windows 2000 notebook at work. I hope. I don’t want to have to install 2K to fix things here. Gah, all I want is kismet to work so I can keep going on the rest of this project.