Topic: Kismet / MacBook Pro / Leopard / kismet.conf

Howdy,

I'm trying to get Kismet to work on a MacBook Pro.  I've downloaded, complied, and installed Kismet-2008-05-R1.  All seems to have gone successfully so far.  I'm at the point where I need to tweak kismet.conf

I've put in source=darwin,en1

However when I start kismet, I get the following

$ sudo ./kismet
Password:
Launching kismet_server: /usr/local/bin/kismet_server
Will drop privs to bumbler00t (501) 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.
FATAL: Illegal card source line 'darwin,en1'
Done.

I suspect my error is with the source directive.  What should I have instead?

Thanks.

Re: Kismet / MacBook Pro / Leopard / kismet.conf

Try this:  source=darwin,en1,airport

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Re: Kismet / MacBook Pro / Leopard / kismet.conf

That did it!

I may have misread things, but it looked to me that the third parameter was an optional name.

With having only 1 source, I felt that naming it wasn't necessary.

Perhaps it wasn't optional either.

Thanks.

Re: Kismet / MacBook Pro / Leopard / kismet.conf

Would you suggest Kismet over Kismac?

I have Kismac and i havent had much luck with it.

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Re: Kismet / MacBook Pro / Leopard / kismet.conf

I have not tried Kismac with the built in airport on my macbook, Bbut it works GREAT with my ALFA AWUS036H.

Re: Kismet / MacBook Pro / Leopard / kismet.conf

(if i am in the wrong place please forgive me, this seemed like it was close to the same if not THE same so i didnt start a new post. I f i am wrong in doing this please accept my apology)

i just found this after a week or so of research (i am probably just not that good at looking) i installed kismet but no matter what i do i can not get it to use the airport (airport extreme under sys-profiler) i have a macbook and it could the be the issue. My airport is broadcom chipset, some people say it doesnt work with broadcom but others say it does, NEITHER say HOW to get it to work. i have tried the above solution but it says...

Kismet started with no packet sources defined.
No sources were defined or all defined sources 
encountered unrecoverable errors. 
Kismet will not be able to capture any data until 
a capture interface is added.  Add a source now? 

also i can only find nsources not just "sources" im guessing this is because of the updated version (every tut' that i have found are for older versions)
also could be from the update, but i can not find suiduser...  (all of this is in reference to the .conf file)

these are some of the sources i have tryed:
darwin,en1,airport
darwin,en1,airport_extreme(w/ and w/o "A" "E")
darwin,en1
en1

if i can get this working without having to buy an external device i would be MOST appreciative!!

(i intend to use kismet by its self and just the server for kismac...)