[Orinoco-users] What REALLY does it take to get Orinoco card working (Monitor mode)

[Keperling ([e-mail])]

Someone told me that the 2.4.34 kernel has the newest version of orinoco
(0.15) drivers built in, and those already contain monitoring support.

I read lots of posts on lots of forums about this. When I do 'iwconfig eth0
mode monitor' or 'airodump-ng eth0' i get errors about trying to put it into
monitor mode. I really would like to know what is going on.

I downgraded my card's firmware to 6.06 which has been tested as reliable.

Thanks for the help guys.

Matt

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

Post by Keperling (***@psu.edu)
Someone told me that the 2.4.34 kernel has the newest version of orinoco
(0.15) drivers built in, and those already contain monitoring support.

That's not what I'm seeing. drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c says it's
0.13d. And that's what it would show in the kernel log.

Post by Keperling (***@psu.edu)
I read lots of posts on lots of forums about this. When I do 'iwconfig eth0
mode monitor' or 'airodump-ng eth0' i get errors about trying to put it into
monitor mode. I really would like to know what is going on.

Yet you don't quote even a single line from the messages. This document
may help: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#symptoms

Post by Keperling (***@psu.edu)
I downgraded my card's firmware to 6.06 which has been tested as reliable.
Thanks for the help guys.

You are welcome.